What is Fabric Pipelines

Definition

Fabric pipelines are the data integration and orchestration capability within Microsoft Fabric, letting teams build, schedule, and monitor workflows that ingest, move, and transform data across sources into OneLake using a visual, low-code interface and reusable activities.

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Ingest and orchestrate data across sources into OneLake
Build workflows visually with low-code, reusable activities
Schedule, monitor, and manage data movement centrally in Fabric
Integrate natively with lakehouses, warehouses, and notebooks

Real World Example

A team builds a Fabric pipeline that copies sales data from an on-premise database, runs a transformation notebook, and loads the result into a lakehouse on a nightly schedule, all monitored from the Fabric portal.

FAQs

What do Fabric pipelines do?

They ingest, move, transform, and orchestrate data across sources into OneLake using a visual, low-code experience.

How do they relate to Azure Data Factory?

Fabric pipelines bring Data Factory-style integration into the unified Fabric platform, working natively with OneLake and Fabric items.

Can pipelines run other Fabric activities?

Yes, they can orchestrate notebooks, dataflows, and other activities as part of a coordinated workflow.