Migration from Azure Data Factory to Microsoft Fabric – Compatibility of Data Flows and Activities

Question

We have built our current data integration solution using Azure Data Factory (ADF), utilizing Copy Activity for data movement and Mapping Data Flows for transformations.

Now, we are considering migrating to Microsoft Fabric. Given that Fabric uses Dataflow Gen2 based on Power Query, I would like to understand:

Can we deploy or reuse our existing ADF pipelines and data flows in Microsoft Fabric without any redevelopment?

Or does the difference in the underlying transformation engine (Mapping Data Flows vs. Power Query) require re-implementation of the transformation logic?

Any guidance or documentation on migrating ADF solutions to Fabric would be appreciated.

Answer 1

There is a functionality to mount ADF within fabric ecosystem and then the ADF runs via the fabric capacity. That is the best way to move over the ADF as is in fabric.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-factory/tutorial-bring-azure-data-factory-to-fabric

for ADF to Fabric data pipeline migration, you can refer the below doc

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-factory/migrate-from-azure-data-factory

ADF dataflows are not supported in fabric data pipelines, so you would have to manually redesign them in Fabric dataflow Gen 2 or notebooks