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Microsoft Fabric Administration Concepts (Capacities, Workspaces and Domains)

datasloth, December 20, 2023

Three important concepts to grasp as a Microsoft Fabric Administrator are capacities, workspaces and domains. I’ve listed a few facts for each that I think are important at the time of this writing. This is not an exhaustive list, but it is a good list to start with to get more information from the documentation, future blog posts I will write, or explanations on my YouTube channel.

  • Capacity
    • Region based universal compute resources
    • Obtained through Azure portal(F-SKU) or M365(P-SKU). These can also be trials.
    • Roles:
      • Capacity Admin
  • Workspace
    • Containers to split capacity into collaboration spaces
    • Includes Fabric artifacts (Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Notebook, Report, Semantic Model, etc.)
    • Includes OneLake (Workspaces are split into their own parent folder with child folders for the Data Lake located in the capacity where the workspace is assigned)
    • Roles:
      • Workspace Admin
      • Workspace Contributor
      • Workspace Member
      • Workspace Viewer
  • Domain
    • Enable Data Mesh in Microsoft Fabric
    • Logical grouping of workspaces
    • Domains are usually business unit based that have a group of workspaces that belong to different teams in that business. Those teams generally work on and own the same set of data, reports, semantic models, etc.
    • Roles:
      • Domain Admin
      • Domain Contributors
        • Can add workspaces to domain

The following is a visual of how you might set up a Fabric architecture with capacities, workspaces and domains. In future articles, I’ll dive into each of these in more depth and how to use them in practice.

Capacities_Domains_Workspaces_Sample_Architecture
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