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Power BI deployment pipelines

How to manage Power BI content lifecycle with deployment pipelines — dev, test, production.

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What a pipeline gives you

A Power BI deployment pipeline has three stages:

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The promotion model

Promoting content does several things:

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Deployment rules

The trick to making pipelines work for multi-environment data sources is deployment rules:

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When pipelines are right

Pipelines are most valuable for:

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Workspace structure

The pipeline stages each live in a separate workspace. Naming conventions help:

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Permissions

Each workspace has its own permissions:

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Source control and pipelines

A newer evolution: Microsoft Fabric Git integration lets the dev workspace sync to a Git repository. Authors work in feature branches, commits PR-reviewed before merging. This is source-controlled BI development finally…

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