Prereqs

Check that you have a few things in place before going through the Microsoft Fabric Administrator quickstart.

Access

These labs assume that you are:

Owner on an Azure subscription (or Contributor + RBAC Administrator)
Global Administrator in Entra ID (or Directory Reader + Application Administrator + Fabric Administrator)

Terraform

It is assumed that you are already familiar with Terraform.

If not then there are plenty of introductions to Terraform on Microsoft Learn, Hashicorp, this Azure Citadel site, and elsewhere.

Providers

You only need one subscription for this quickstart but it needs a few providers registered.

Log into the right subscription context.

az login
az account set --subscription "<subscriptionNameOrId>"
az account show

az provider register --namespace Microsoft.Authorization
az provider register --namespace Microsoft.Fabric
az provider register --namespace Microsoft.Resources
az provider register --namespace Microsoft.Storage

Note that the example does allow for the storage account (for Terraform remote state) to be placed in a different subscription, e.g. a management subscription in an ALZ platform landing zone.

Tooling

The labs assume that you already have

Azure CLI
GitHub CLI
Terraform
Visual Studio Code

If you are missing any of these then the setup page has instructions and links to help you.

The labs have been written from a bash shell perspective (e.g. WSL on Windows, or bash in macOS).

Azure CLI fabric extension

Add on the fabric extension for the Azure CLI to get the az fabric capacity commands.

az extension add --name microsoft-fabric

Fabric CLI

The Fabric CLI is also used. The install requires python (3.10, 3.11 or 3.12).

Standard install

The standard installation is below, but may fail on Ubuntu/Debian.
```
pip install ms-fabric-cli
```
To update the Fabric CLI for a standard install, run pip upgrade ms-fabric-cli.
Virtual environment install (optional)

⚠️ Only needed if you get error: externally-managed-environment from the standard install.
```
sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3.12-venv pipx -y
pipx install ms-fabric-cli
pipx ensurepath
```
To update the Fabric CLI within a virtual environment, run pipx upgrade ms-fabric-cli.
Check the version
```
fab --version
```
Example output:
```
fab version 0.2.0 (2025)
```
Authenticate
```
fab auth login
```

Check the authentication

fab auth status

Example output:

✓ Logged in to app.fabric.microsoft.com
  - Account: richeney@MngEnvMCAP520989.onmicrosoft.com (<objectId>)
  - Tenant ID: <tenantId>
  - Token (fabric/powerbi): eyJ0************************************
  - Token (storage): eyJ0************************************
  - Token (azure): eyJ0************************************

Feel free to refer to the blog, GitHub Pages and docs for more information on the Fabric CLI.

Right, you should be set up and good to go. Move to the next page to list out your available Fabric capacity.

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