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I decided to share my thoughts about the perfect combination of Azure DevOps services for an end-to-end Microsoft Fabric CI/CD story. Since the topic came up in a forum recently. Before I go any further, I will explain what I mean by Azure Devops services. Even though a lot of people think of Azure DevOps … Read more
In this post I want to encourage others to think about their Microsoft Fabric Continuous Integration maturity levels. Like the potential Microsoft Fabric Continuous Integration (CI) maturity levels that are shown in the below diagram. Because I want people to understand that there is more to implementing a good CI/CD strategy then simply configuring Microsoft … Read more
In this post I want to show how you can operationalize fabric-cicd to work with Microsoft Fabric and GitHub Actions. Since I got asked if this post was available whilst helping at the ask the experts panel during the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference. Just so that everybody is aware, fabric-cicd is a Python library that … Read more
In this post I want to share my thoughts about some of the Microsoft Fabric CI/CD related announcements during FabCon. To clarify, when I say FabCon I mean the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference. Which took place last week in Las Vegas. In reality, there were a lot of great announcements during the Microsoft Fabric Community … Read more
In this post I show how you can operationalize fabric-cicd to work with Microsoft Fabric and YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps. As a follow up to my previous post on how to work with fabric-cicd and Classic pipelines. I want to highlight some subtle differences in this post compared to my last post. Which are … Read more
In this post I show how you can operationalize fabric-cicd to work with Microsoft Fabric and Azure DevOps. Just so that everybody is aware, fabric-cicd is a Python library that allows you to perform CI/CD of various Microsoft Fabric items into Microsoft Fabric workspaces. With the list of supported Fabric items ever increasing. I previously … Read more
In this post I cover my initial tests of fabric-cicd. In order to provide some tips for those looking to work with this new offering. Just so that everybody is aware, fabric-cicd is a Python library that allows you to perform CI/CD of various Microsoft Fabric items into Microsoft Fabric workspaces. At this moment in … Read more
In this post I cover two happy together paths to test semantic models in Microsoft Fabric feature workspaces with BPA. Before you deploy updates to your development environment. To clarify, when I say BPA I mean the Best Practices Analyzer functionality that you can work with to check that your semantic models are optimized and … Read more
For this months T-SQL Tuesday contribution I cover how you can improve your Data Platform integrity with CI/CD practices. Before I go any further, I want to thank Rob Farley who hosts this months T-SQL Tuesday. Rob invites us all to cover the topic of integrity. You can read the original invitation by clicking on … Read more
In this post I cover two ways to perform CI/CD for SQL databases in Fabric using YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps. By showing two different ways you can create the dacpac file with YAML pipelines. One way with a database project and another by directly extracting the schema of the database into a dacpac file. … Read more