Manage the environment through public APIs

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05/21/2024

The Microsoft Fabric REST API provides a service endpoint for the create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations of a Fabric item. This article describes the available environment REST APIs and their usage.

Important

This feature is in preview.

Summary of available environment APIs

API	Description	Category
Create environment	Create a new environment in the workspace.	General
Get environment	Get the metadata of an environment. The response includes the status of the environment.	General
Update environment	Update the metadata of an environment, like name and description.	General
Delete environment	Delete an existing environment.	General
List environment in workspace	Get the list of environment in a workspace.	General
Publish environment	Trigger the publish of the environment with current pending changes.	General
Publish cancellation	Cancel an ongoing publish of the environment	General
Get published Spark compute	Get the Spark compute configurations that are effective.	Spark compute
Get staging Spark compute	Get the full staging compute configurations. The staging configurations include the published and pending compute configurations.	Spark compute
Get published libraries	Get the library list that is effective.	Libraries
Get staging libraries	Get the full staging library list. This list includes the published and pending libraries.	Libraries
Upload staging libraries	Adding one custom library or one/multiple public library in the environment.	Libraries
Delete staging libraries	Delete one staging custom library or all public library.	Libraries

Learn more about the environment public APIs in Item APIs - Environment

Environment public API use cases

This section walks you through several common scenarios when dealing with environment. You can replace the {WORKSPACE_ID} and {ARTIFACT_ID} in the following examples with appropriate values.

Create a new environment

You can create a new empty environment using the following API.

Sample request

POST https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/workspaces/{{WORKSPACE_ID}}/environments

{
    "displayName": "Environment_1",
    "description": "An environment description"
}

Manage staging libraries

You can use the upload/delete staging libraries APIs to manage the library section in the environment

Check the published libraries for the environment

Before adding/deleting library, you can use the get published libraries API to check what libraries are currently effective.

Sample request

GET https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/workspaces/{{WORKSPACE_ID}}/environments/{{ARTIFACT_ID}}/libraries

Sample response

{
    "customLibraries": {
        "wheelFiles": [
            "samplewheel-0.18.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl"
        ],
        "pyFiles": [
            "samplepython.py"
        ],
        "jarFiles": [
            "samplejar.jar"
        ],
        "rTarFiles": [
            "sampleR.tar.gz"
        ]
    },
    "environmentYml": "dependencies:\r\n- pip:\r\n  - matplotlib==3.4.3"
}

Uploading the libraries

The API for uploading staging library accepts one file at a time. The supported file types are .whl, .jar, .tar.gz, .py and environment.yml for public library. You can specify the file via the multipart/form-data content-type.

Note

In order to manipulate the public library more efficiently, it's highly recommend to compose all expected libraries from PyPI and conda in an environment.yml file.
The uploading API allows up to 200 MB file in one request, library that exceeds this size limit is currently not supported in public API.

Sample requests

POST https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/workspaces/{{WORKSPACE_ID}}/environments/{{ARTIFACT_ID}}/staging/libraries

Deleting the libraries

By specifying the full library file name with the type suffix, you can delete one library at a time.

Note

If you specify environment.yml as the file to be deleted, you are removing all public libraries.
If you want to remove a subset of existing public library, please use the upload library instead and upload an environment.yml that contains only the expected libraries. The uploaded environment.yml replaces the existing public library section entirely.

Sample requests

DELETE https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/workspaces/{{WORKSPACE_ID}}/environments/{{ARTIFACT_ID}}/staging/libraries?libraryToDelete=fuzzywuzzy-0.18.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl

Manage staging Spark compute

You can use the update staging Spark compute to manage the Spark compute.

Check the published Spark compute for the environment

Before changing the configurations for the environment, you can use the get published Spark compute API to check what Spark compute configurations are currently effective.

Sample request

GET https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/workspaces/{{WORKSPACE_ID}}/environments/{{ARTIFACT_ID}}/sparkcompute

Sample response

{
    "instancePool": {
        "name": "Starter Pool",
        "type": "Workspace"
    },
    "driverCores": 4,
    "driverMemory": "56g",
    "executorCores": 4,
    "executorMemory": "56g",
    "dynamicExecutorAllocation": {
        "enabled": false,
        "minExecutors": 1,
        "maxExecutors": 1
    },
    "sparkProperties": {
        "spark.acls.enable": "false"
    },
    "runtimeVersion": "1.2"
}

Update the compute configurations

You can update the Spark runtime, switch to another pool, refine compute configuration and add/remove Spark properties through editing the request body of this API.

You can switch the attached pool by specifying the pool name and pool. Specify the pool name as Starter Pool to switch the pool to default settings. To get the full list of the available custom pools of the workspace by REST API, see Custom Pools - List Workspace Custom Pools

If you want to remove an existing Spark property, you need to specify the value as null with the key that you want to remove, as showing in the following example.

Sample request

PATCH https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/workspaces/{{WORKSPACE_ID}}/environments/{{ARTIFACT_ID}}/staging/sparkcompute

{
    "instancePool": {
        "name": "Starter Pool",
        "type": "Workspace"
    },
    "driverCores": 4,
    "driverMemory": "56g",
    "executorCores": 4,
    "executorMemory": "56g",
    "dynamicExecutorAllocation": {
        "enabled": false,
        "minExecutors": 1,
        "maxExecutors": 1
    },
    "sparkProperties": {
        "spark.acls.enable": null
    },
    "runtimeVersion": "1.2"
}

Make the changes effective

Using the following sets of APIs to publish the changes.

Prepare for a publish

The environment can accept one publish at a time. Before publishing your environment, you can validate the status of the environment and have a final review of the staging changes. Once the environment is published successfully, all configurations in the staging state become effective.

Step 1: get the metadata of the environment
```
GET https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/workspaces/{{WORKSPACE_ID}}/environments/{{ARTIFACT_ID}}/
```
In the response body, you can tell clearly the state of the environment. Make sure there is no ongoing publish before you move to next step.

Step 2: get the staging libraries/Spark compute to have a final review

GET https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/workspaces/{{WORKSPACE_ID}}/environments/{{ARTIFACT_ID}}/staging/libraries

GET https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/workspaces/{{WORKSPACE_ID}}/environments/{{ARTIFACT_ID}}/staging/sparkcompute

Trigger the publish of the environment

The changes you made in for the staging libraries and Spark compute are cached but require publishing to become effective. Follow the following example to trigger the publish.

Sample request

POST https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/workspaces/{{WORKSPACE_ID}}/environments/{{ARTIFACT_ID}}/staging/publish

Sample response

{
    "publishDetails":
    {
        "state": "Running",
        "targetVersion": "46838a80-5450-4414-bea0-40fb6f3e0c0d",
        "startTime": "2024-03-29T14:17:09.0697022Z",
        "componentPublishInfo": {
            "sparkLibraries": {
                "state": "Running"
            },
            "sparkSettings": {
                "state": "Running"
            }
        }
    }
}

During the publish, you can also call following API to cancel it.

Sample request

POST https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/workspaces/{{WORKSPACE_ID}}/environments/{{ARTIFACT_ID}}/staging/cancelPublish

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Manage the environment through public APIs

Summary of available environment APIs

Environment public API use cases

Create a new environment

Manage staging libraries

Check the published libraries for the environment

Uploading the libraries

Deleting the libraries

Manage staging Spark compute

Check the published Spark compute for the environment

Update the compute configurations

Make the changes effective

Prepare for a publish

Trigger the publish of the environment

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Manage the environment through public APIs

Summary of available environment APIs

Environment public API use cases

Create a new environment

Manage staging libraries

Check the published libraries for the environment

Uploading the libraries

Deleting the libraries

Manage staging Spark compute

Check the published Spark compute for the environment

Update the compute configurations

Make the changes effective

Prepare for a publish

Trigger the publish of the environment

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