What’s new with Fabric CI/CD – May 2025
As the capabilities of our Fabric Platform Git Integration continue to evolve, we’re happy to share some updates about Fabric’s latest CI/CD capabilities. These advancements are designed to enhance the developer experience and simplify the integration of DevOps practices into everyday workflows. With these innovations, Fabric continues to empower teams to build, test, and deploy with greater efficiency.
Service Principal Support for Azure DevOps (Preview)
A few weeks ago, we announced the capability to use Service Principal when working with Fabric Git API and your Git Provider is GitHub. We are happy to share that soon we will support Azure DevOps as your Git Provider as well; the ETA is June 2025.
If you want to learn more about how to automate your CI/CD process in Fabric, you can use one of the following resources:
Azure DevOps Cross-Tenant Support (Preview)
Previously, connecting your workspaces using your identity to an Azure DevOps repository required both Fabric and your Azure DevOps organization to reside within the same tenant. However, we’re happy to announce that this limitation will soon be a thing of the past (ETA: June-2025). With our upcoming update, you’ll be able to connect to an Azure DevOps organization even if it belongs to a different tenant than your Fabric tenant.
To start using this new capability
- In Fabric, navigate to ‘Manage Connections and Gateways’ (under Fabric settings), select to add a new cloud connection type: ‘Azure DevOps source control’ using ‘OAUTH 2.0’ as the authentication method, and complete the ‘edit credential’ step.
- After successfully adding the connection, access your workspace settings, go to the git integration tab, select your newly created account, and complete the remaining information.
Support in Variable library is extended
Last month, in FabCon Vegas 2025, we announced a new product to Fabric CI/CD suite, Variable library. A variable library is a bucket of variables to be used by items across the workspace, allowing dynamic values to be retrieved based on the release stage, is git supported and can be automated. It can be use in Data pipeline, and today we are happy to announce that more items are underway to support using Variable library:
Shortcut for Lakehouse – Where Variable library will be used to parameterize the shortcut configuration. This includes managing connections to data sources and defining paths.
Notebook – Native support for using variables in Notebook code, including IntelliSense, will be available in July 2025.
Scheduler – Where Variable library variables could be used in parameters
These enhancements are designed to provide greater flexibility and streamline integration workflows for teams operating across multiple tenants.
Our team is continuously working to empower your Fabric CI/CD processes, stay tuned for more to come.
