A hands-on workshop for learning source control and DevOps practices with Microsoft Fabric.
💡 GitHub or Azure DevOps? This workshop uses GitHub for examples, but the process works almost exactly the same with Azure DevOps. Both platforms use Git, so the core concepts—commits, branches, pull requests—are identical.
- A Microsoft Fabric capacity (trial or paid)
- A GitHub account OR an Azure DevOps organization
- For GitHub: A personal access token with repo scope (classic) or Contents read/write permission (fine-grained)
- For GitHub: Admin access to your repository (needed to configure branch protection rules in Section 4)
⚠️ Admin Note: Your Fabric tenant admin must enable "Users can synchronize workspace items with their Git repositories" in the admin portal. If you can't see the Git integration option, contact your admin.
💡 Lectures: Some sections begin with a lecture slide deck (lesson X.0) that introduces key concepts before the hands-on exercises. These are Marp presentations—open the markdown file and use the Marp extension to preview or export slides.
| Lesson | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | Lecture | 15 min |
| 1.1 | Connecting Your Workspace to Git | 15-20 min |
| 1.2 | Making Your First Commit | 20-25 min |
| 1.3 | Undoing Uncommitted Changes | 5-10 min |
| Lesson | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | Lecture | 15 min |
| 2.1 | Setting Up a Deployment Pipeline | 15-20 min |
| 2.2 | Tagging Releases | 10-15 min |
| 2.3 | Deploying to Production | 10-15 min |
| 2.4 | Viewing Previous Releases with Tags | 10 min |
| 2.5 | Practice - Tag and Deploy Again | 5-10 min |
| 2.6 | Adding a Test Environment | 5 min |
| Lesson | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | Adding a Lakehouse to Your Notebook | 10-15 min |
| 3.2 | Creating Deployment Rules | 10-15 min |
| Lesson | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | Inner Loop and Outer Loop | 5 min |
| 4.2 | Branching Strategy | 10 min |
| 4.3 | Configuring Branch Policies | 10 min |
| 4.4 | Creating a Feature Branch | 10-15 min |
| 4.5 | Merging with Pull Requests | 10 min |
| 4.6 | Cleaning Up | 5 min |
| Lesson | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | What Are Variable Libraries? | 5-10 min |
| 5.2 | Creating a Variable Library | 10-15 min |
| 5.3 | Using Library Variables in a Notebook | 10-15 min |
| 5.4 | Deploying and Selecting Active Value Sets | 10-15 min |
| 5.5 | Other Ways to Use Variable Libraries | 10 min |
- Deployment Pipeline Parameters
- Handling Merge Conflicts
- Automated Testing in Pull Requests
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps Pipelines (ISV scenarios)
This project is licensed under the MIT License.