If you like me started with working with notebooks in Fabric and have company policy that dictate using private links you will have discovered Microsoft “starter pools” are no longer an option. The startup time goes from below 10 seconds to 3-5 minutes.
Microsoft have luckily decided to do something about this and have now introduced custom live pool in public preview. This is a great first step for customers – however it has one very limiting factor – it only work with workspace pools. These sessions will “only” be available on one given workspace and not across multiple workspaces.
My proposal is to introduce custom live pools on capacity level. I want to be able to define environments on capacity level and share custom live pools on any workspace connected to this capacity. This will have the following benefits:
- Much easier for the admin to administrate custom live pools
- Cost effective – we would max want to pay for X custom live pools and spread them between all of the workspace for a given capacity – we cannot/“will not” set this up pr. workspace and have idle custom clusters across many workspaces.
Link to current configuration on custom live pools on learn: Configure custom live pools in Microsoft Fabric - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn
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- +1 for this.. The custom live pools feature is amazing, but in more enterprise set-ups (where you can't really use starter pools because of custom libs & MPE's) most set-ups contain of a core workspace and multiple workspaces per domain/layer, so a per-workspace config without the ability to share this cross-workspace is not really working...
