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Deploying Fabric Resources via ADO

Published 2026-08-11 by Kevin Feasel

Jon Lunn continues a series on source control and branching with Microsoft Fabric:

There are a few things you need to check first:

  1. Does the account your going to use to authenticate to (In this case a Service Principal) been added to the workspace with contributor level access?
  2. Has the DevOps Library been updated with the values for the Service Principal and workspace id you are deploying to?
  3. Has any DevOps Environment that is production been gated to to allow deployments only after approval?
  4. Got the list of items to deploy?

You have done all those, then alright! Lets push that button! Flick that switch! Saddle that horse!

Be right back; acquiring horse.

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Replacing Item IDs and Connection Strings with Variable Libraries

Published 2026-07-16 by Kevin Feasel

Gilbert Quevauvilliers makes use of variable libraries in Microsoft Fabric:

In this blog post I’m going to show you how you can use variable libraries with connection strings as well as items.

This approach allows you to manage environment-specific configuration when deploying Fabric items across development, test, and production workspaces

If you’re looking to move your fabric capacities across workspaces or regions, you can do this quickly and easily without having to re-Plumb a lot of the work.

Click through for a working example.

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Thoughts on Deploying Fabric Data Agents

Published 2026-06-24 by Kevin Feasel

Marc Lelijveld performs a deployment:

Over the past year, I’ve frequently blogged about Fabric Data Agents. Alongside myself, many other community members have been sharing their experiences and best practices to get the most out of Data Agents. However, there is one topic I rarely see discussed: deployment of Data Agents.

As Data Agents become part of production-grade solutions, deployment and lifecycle management become increasingly important. Building a Data Agent is one thing, but moving it consistently between Development, Test, and Production environments is a completely different challenge.

In this blog, I will share my current best practices around deploying Fabric Data Agents, including what works today, where the limitations are, and the gaps that still exist.

Read on to see what Marc recommends at this time, with the proviso that some of this will likely change as the product develops further.

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Moving Fabric Notebooks between Workspaces

Published 2026-06-17 by Kevin Feasel

Gilbert Quevauvilliers takes advantage of source control:

With the new Lakehouse Auto-Binding capability in Notebook Git integration, Fabric can now intelligently preserve and resolve the binding between your notebooks and their attached Lakehouses as you move them across workspaces. This makes true multi-environment development and CI/CD workflows in Fabric significantly smoother and more reliable.

I am going to show you how to do this in the blog post below.

That is pretty nice, and Gilbert has a demo of the process, showing that it’s not particularly onerous

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Database Deployment Variables with SQLCMD

Published 2026-05-07 by Kevin Feasel

Andy Brownsword changes a variable:

A regular Database Project deployment is static and delivers consistent results regardless of environment. When it comes to schema, that’s usually desired, but data is a different story.

Data is environment specific. You want a Database Project that works across all environments. You want smarter deployments. You need SQLCMD Variables.

These have been the go-to method for handling different environments and other things that change between releases since I started using database projects about 15 years ago. Looks like not a lot has changed on this front, but it’s good to see that they still work as expected.

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Training, Serving, and Deploying Scikit-Learn Models via FastAPI

Published 2026-04-24 by Kevin Feasel

Abid Ali Awan serves a model:

In this article, you will learn how to train a Scikit-learn classification model, serve it with FastAPI, and deploy it to FastAPI Cloud.

Topics we will cover include:

  • How to structure a simple project and train a Scikit-learn model for inference.
  • How to build and test a FastAPI inference API locally.
  • How to deploy the API to FastAPI Cloud and prepare it for more production-ready usage.

Click through for the process.

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The Power of Database Projects

Published 2026-04-22 by Kevin Feasel

Andy Brownsword is sold:

If you’ve been using Database Projects for simply maintaining copies of your database objects – like I used to – then you’ve been missing out on the power of its deployments. Initially I was sceptical about how it could effectively perform upgrades but after seeing them land in SSMS last month I wanted to revisit them as a means of actual deployment.

My scepticism was completely misplaced, so if you haven’t touched Database Projects before – or had similar concerns as me – I want to demonstrate 3 features which make them not just good, but amazing for deployments.

Click through for those features. I will say that for straightforward databases, the database project deployment process is pretty good. Where it falls apart is when you have a large number of cross-database dependencies, especially if there are mutual cross-database dependencies: DB1.dbo.sp1 needs DB2.dbo.Table2, and DB2.dbo.view2 references DB1.dbo.Table1. In that case, the workaround is so annoying and essentially comes down to “have three separate database projects, one for DB1, one for DB2, and one for a scalled-down version of DB1/DB2 without the dependencies, and then use that to inject into the other DB.” Which does kind of work, yeah, but now you’re maintaining even more. And once you get to dozens of dependencies and lots of cross-database queries? Yeah, forget about it.

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Fabric Deployments in Azure DevOps via fab deploy

Published 2026-04-17 by Kevin Feasel

Kevin Chant has a tutorial:

This post covers using fab deploy in Azure DevOps for Microsoft Fabric deployments based on YAML pipelines. In addition, this post shows how you can perform initial tests locally and introduces some AI concepts. Plus, this post shares plenty of links and advice.

You can find an example to accompany this post in the ‘create-genworkspace-fabric-cli.yml‘ file my ADO-fabric-cicd-sample Git repository. I also added some AI elements within this Git repository as well. Including the Fabric CLI skills that were announced during FabCon.

Click through to learn more about fab deploy and how the process works.

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Power BI Version Control via Azure DevOps

Published 2026-04-01 by Kevin Feasel

Gilbert Quevauvilliers works with the on-again, off-again CI/CD solution Microsoft has to offer:

In this blog post is a way set up version control for Power BI semantic models (and reports) using the PBIP (Power BI Project) format, Azure DevOps (Azure Repos), and VS Code.

This approach treats your semantic model as readable text files (JSON/TMDL), enabling proper Git diffing, branching, merging, and collaboration—something binary .pbix files don’t support well.

Click through for the process.

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Deploy Microsoft Fabric Items with fabric-cicd in Azure DevOps

Published 2026-03-10 by Kevin Feasel

Kevin Chant announces a new Azure DevOps extension:

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 the below screenshot.

Read on to see how the extension works.

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