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This post shows YAML Pipeline examples for the “Deploy Microsoft Fabric items with fabric-cicd” Azure DevOps extension. Which is the Azure DevOps extension that I published last month and is free for everybody to work with within Azure DevOps. You can find additional YAML pipelines examples in my ADO-deploy-fabric-items-task-examples repository. You can a guide on … Read more
This post covers how you can simplify Microsoft Fabric deployments with “Deploy Microsoft Fabric items with fabric-cicd”. Which is an Azure DevOps extension that I recently published. To manage expectations, this post shows how to start working with the extension and its associated task within the GUI-based classic release pipelines in Azure DevOps. Like in … Read more
This post covers how to operationalize configuration-based deployments to work with Microsoft Fabric and Azure DevOps. This feature is now generally available in the latest fabric-cicd release. Microsoft has officially announced official support for Microsoft fabric-cicd tool. With that news, this feels like the perfect time to follow up on the post read by thousands … Read more
This post includes what I consider to be your first fabric-cicd deployment steps from your local machine. Because I am aware that a lot of people have yet to work with fabric-cicd. Fabric-cicd is a Python library that allows you to perform CI/CD of various Microsoft Fabric items into Microsoft Fabric workspaces. With some customization … Read more
In this post I cover an alternative way you can authenticate as a service principal to run a Microsoft Fabric notebook using GitHub Actions. By authenticating through the Fabric CLI (Command Line Interface) to run the notebook. Some time ago I covered how to authenticate as a service principal to run a Microsoft Fabric notebook … Read more
I am really excited about introducing the “Deploy Microsoft Fabric workspace items with fabric-cicd” GitHub Action in this post. Which appears to be the first Microsoft Fabric related GitHub Action to be made available in the GitHub Marketplace. This GitHub Action will save a lot of effort when looking to move Microsoft Fabric items from … Read more
In this post I cover the mystery of the fabric-cicd authentication that never was. To help others who experience similar issues with fabric-cicd. Allow me to explain. A while back I encountered issues whilst testing some things for the Azure DevOps version of the FUAM deploymenator. Which is a FUAM deployment accelerator that I developed … Read more
In this post I show one way you can deploy a working Direct Lake semantic model with fabric-cicd and Fabric CLI as part of your Microsoft Fabric CI/CD strategy. To clarify, when I say working I mean that the Direct Lake semantic model points to the correct SQL analytics endpoint for a Lakehouse in the … Read more
In this post I want to show one way that you can operationalize Fabric workspaces using Fabric CLI and fabric-cicd with GitHub Actions. To clarify, when I say the Fabric CLI I mean the Fabric Command Line Interface. Which is a command line offering by Microsoft. Whereas fabric-cicd is a Python library that allows you … Read more
In this post I want to show one way you can operationalize Fabric workspaces with Azure DevOps using Fabric CLI and fabric-cicd. To clarify, when I say the Fabric CLI I mean the Fabric Command Line Interface. Which is a command line offering by Microsoft. Whereas fabric-cicd is a Python library that allows you to … Read more