Introduction

Microsoft Fabric provides powerful deployment capabilities for managing changes and automating releases across development, test, and production environments. For the DP-600 certification exam, understanding how to configure deployment pipelines in a Fabric workspace is essential to enable smooth transitions between development stages and ensure consistent data and reporting experiences.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create and configure deployment pipelines in Microsoft Fabric to promote an item from development 🧪 to test 🛠️ and production 🚀 environments. We'll walk you through the steps to create a deployment pipeline and demonstrate how to deploy a Fabric item between environments.

🌐 Deployment Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric

Deployment pipelines in Microsoft Fabric enable a structured process for managing content releases and ensuring consistency across different environments like development, test, and production.

They allow developers to automate and streamline the deployment of data pipelines, dataflows, notebooks and other Fabric items.

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Not all Fabric items are supported by deployment pipelines. An overview of supported items can be found in the Microsoft Fabric documentation.

✅ Benefits of Deployment Pipelines

✔️ Test changes in a controlled environment before moving to production.
✔️ Ensure consistency and data accuracy across different environments.
✔️ Automate and simplify the release process to reduce errors.

Microsoft Fabric provides a dedicated interface for managing deployment pipelines, allowing you to configure and monitor deployment stages at one place.

⚙️ Set Up Deployment Pipelines

You can configure a deployment pipeline in Microsoft Fabric by defining three key stages: Development, Test, and Production. This allows you to track changes and promote content seamlessly through the deployment lifecycle.

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It's best practice to create a separate Fabric workspace for each environment to ensure better isolation and control.

🎯 Goal

Our goal is to create a deployment pipeline in Microsoft Fabric containing tree stages: Development, Test and Production. A Fabric item should be deployed from Development to Test and then to Production.

As an example, we consider the notebook dlnerds_notebook in the Development workspace dlnerds_dev.

This notebook should be deployed from the Development workspace to the Test workspace dlnerds_test and then to the Production workspace dlnerds_prod.

🏗️ Step 1: Create Deployment Pipeline

First, let's create a deployment pipeline in Microsoft Fabric.

To do this, select Workspaces on the left navigation pane and click Deployment pipelines. 

Click New pipeline.

Enter a name and a description for the pipeline and click Next.

Next, define the stages of the pipeline.

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