production and development workspace licensing

[smeetsh]

Good morning all,

Powerbi tenant we have 2 workspaces, one for production, one for development. How is the licensing sorted for having 2 workspaces. Do you need to assign (and pay for) a capacity to each workspace, or is the license automatially spread out over the workspaces?

The reason I ask is that we need to upgrade our license from a trial license and it is unclear to me what will happen when we do?  

[smeetsh]

Just a follow up question, are there other/better ways to handle development environments in fabric or is this the way to go..since potentialy it could become an expensive solution?

[lbendlin]

It is up to you if you want dedicated capacities for Dev or ITG. There is no technical advantage in doing that. All pipeline stages can be on the same capacity.

[lbendlin]

There is no "license" limit for the number of workspaces in a capacity (there's a technical limit but you won't hit that any time soon).

Note that the word "license"  is not entirely accurate here. You are renting a Fabric capacity, and then on top of it you need to manage Pro licenses for developer activity.

[smeetsh]

teh one thing that puzzles me is that we appear to have 2 capacities, the one that runs out in 7 days is the dev one, production is not far behind. We are entirely unsure how to handle this? just assign the capacity we bought to both workspaces?

[lbendlin · Accepted solution]

The other way round.  Move your workspaces to the permanent capacity.