Why Can't We Create Deployment Rules in Microsoft Fabric Deployment Pipelines?

[bhavya5903]

Hi Fabric Community,

I'm using Deployment Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric to move my project from Dev → Test → Prod environments. I noticed there’s no option to configure Deployment Rules for:

• Pipelines

• Dataflow Gen2

• Lakehouse or Warehouse connections

• Other environment-specific configurations

This makes it difficult to handle scenarios where resource names or connections differ between environments (e.g., Dev_LH → Prod_LH), and we’re forced to manually update settings post-deployment — which is error-prone and not scalable for enterprise solutions.

My Questions:

• Why isn’t the Deployment Rule feature available yet for pipelines, Dataflow Gen2, and other key assets?

• Is support for these in the Fabric roadmap?

• What are the current best practices or workarounds to automate environment-specific behavior during deployment?

[suparnababu8 · Accepted solution]

Hi @bhavya5903 

Yes, you are absolytely correct. Deployment rules not configurable for 

-Pipelines

-Dataflow Gen2

-Lakehouse or Warehouse connections

-Other environment-specific configurations

I agree it's a not scalable option to chnage it manually. Please have a look on my comments below.

• Lakehouses supported for deployement pipelines with Git Integration(preview mode) - Read more details here Lakehouse deployment pipelines and git integration - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn
• Reg., Dataflow gen2 , as per discussion happend in community, it will supports for CICD and git intergration.  Read more about accepeted soultuion about this here Solved: Re: DataflowGen2 CICD -> Deployment pipeline rule ... - Microsoft Fabric Community
• Reg Dataflow Gen2 Paramterization, it is planned in Q3 2025
• Connections parameterization is planned in Q1 of 2026 

  Please go thorugh this Microsoft Fabric Roadmap for more details

My recommendation is use worksapce parameters and workspace varaiables where it is possible for your workloads. If you want to submit any idea about your query. Please submit it here Fabric Ideas - Microsoft Fabric Community

Please let me know if it helps you.

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[AntoineW]

Hi @bhavya5903,

Great question — and yes, Microsoft Fabric now supports environment-specific configuration management through the Variable Library feature (currently in preview), which addresses the exact challenge you're describing.

This topic has already been addressed in detail here : https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-platform/How-to-Handle-Dynamic-Environment-Configur...

It covers the current support for environment-specific configuration using Variable Libraries in Deployment Pipelines, and how to handle dynamic connections across Dev → Test → Prod.

Hope it helps!

Best regards,

Antoine