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In this post, we will discuss the final two configuration categories associated with Cloud Adoption Framework's Landing Zone pillars as applicable to Microsoft Fabric. This is the final post in the 3 part series I started a few months ago.
Design Area - Governance
Microsoft Fabric capacity costs are surfaced to customers using the Azure Cost Management service. This allows integration of costs into the Azure Cost Management dashboard and alerting experience. Refer to this topic on granular information on the cost meters that are available in Azure Cost Management related to Fabric
Capacity Optimization
Microsoft Fabric’s technical architecture and commercial model allow for customers to control how much capacity they consume in order to optimize operational costs. Following aspects of Capacity configuration can be leveraged. Fabric capacity monitoring is discussed in a separate section within this document.
Capacity Operation | Description |
Scaling | If a customer uses F SKU capacity, scaling up and down allows fine-grain usage of resources optimizing pricing for predictable peaks and troughs. Refer to this topic for more details. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/enterprise/scale-capacity |
Pause/Resume | For an F SKU capacity, Fabric Admins have permissions to pause/resume capacity. This allows minimizing the compute charges for periods where the capacity is not needed. |
Surge Protection | Surge Protection limits overusing a capacity by background jobs. Fabric offers two settings at Capacity level that can be configured to manage the surge protection behaviour – Background Rejection Threshold and Background Recovery Threshold. Refer to this topic for additional information https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/enterprise/surge-protection |
Capacity Reservations
Microsoft Fabric offers clients the option to reserve Capacity for a period of time in exchange for discount on operational costs. Opting into reserved capacity should be done in a planned and methodical manner to ensure that the reservations result in commercial benefit. More information on Capacity Reservation can be found here.
Data Governance using Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Purview offers rich, robust, scalable and comprehensive data governance controls. Using Purview, customers are able to define and apply sensitivity labels, monitor lineage, promote/certify data items etc. Full breadth of Purview Data Governance features can be found here.
Design Area - Platform Automation and Devops
Git Integration
Microsoft Fabric’s Lifecycle management tools offers customers standardized mechanism to collaborate and communicate when working in a multi-developer environment using Fabric’s Data Science, Data Engineering, Real-time Analytics and other capabilities. Git integration and Deployment Pipelines can be leveraged to achieve automation across development and release process.
Multiple developers can simultaneously contribute to complex projects in a single Fabric Workspace if the workspace is configured to use Git. By applying Git advantages and best practices, developers can collaborate and release content changes quickly and effectively across the Workspace.
More information on Git Integration in Microsoft Fabric can be found at this page.
Deployment Pipelines
Deployment Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric enable creators to develop and test content in the service before it reaches users. Following item types are supported as of March 2025
For more information on this feature in Fabric, refer to this part of the documentation.
Platform Automation
Microsoft Fabric is supported through comprehensive REST API that allows most administrative tasks to be scripted/automated. This approach allows predictable outcome each time an operation is repeated (eg. Deploying a new data pipeline). More information on Fabric Rest API can be found here.
This concludes the series that covers Microsoft Fabric Design Guidance using Cloud Adoption Framekwork's design pillars. From the time I published the first post in this series, there have been many changes, updates and announcements and I would encourage you to review the entire Fabric roadmap for latest information. You can find this at http://aka.ms/fabricroadmap
Links
Microsoft Fabric CAF Configuration Guide - Part 1
Microsoft Fabric CAF Configuration Guide - Part 2
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