CSA Loom — One-Pager¶
Single-page (front + back) reference for trade shows + cold outreach. PDF generated from this markdown via mkdocs-pdf workflow.
Front page¶
CSA Loom¶
The Microsoft Fabric Experience in Your Azure Government Tenant
CSA Loom is a productized, Azure-native parity layer for Microsoft Fabric. Deploy it into any Azure tenant where Fabric isn't yet available — federal, DoD, intelligence community, state + local, defense industrial base.
Why now¶
Microsoft Fabric is Forecasted in every US Government cloud and not yet authorized at FedRAMP High, DoD IL4/IL5, or Top Secret. Federal customers can't wait. Loom is the bridge.
What you get¶
- Loom Console — Next.js + Fluent UI v9 application that gives you the Fabric workspace experience (12 panes covering lakehouse, warehouse, notebooks, semantic models, KQL, catalog, activator, data agents, monitoring, admin)
- Loom Setup Wizard — conversational deploy with live
.bicepparampreview, backed by self-hosted Azure MCP - Parity services that fill Fabric-only gaps:
- Direct-Lake Shim (warm-cache materializer)
- Activator Engine (Reflex parity)
- Mirroring Engine (Open Mirroring publisher-contract compatible)
- Data Agents (NL2SQL / NL2DAX / NL2KQL)
Per-boundary support¶
| Boundary | v1 (now) | v1.1 (+3 mo) |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial | ✅ | — |
| GCC | ✅ | — |
| GCC-High / IL4 | ✅ | — |
| DoD IL5 | — | ✅ |
| IL6 / Top Secret | Out of scope | — |
Deployment¶
azd upCLI (60-100 min to working Console)- "Deploy to Azure" button in README
- All into your own Azure subscription — pay only for consumption
- CSA Loom IP is free in v1
Try it¶
| Item | URL |
|---|---|
| GitHub repo | github.com/fgarofalo56/csa-inabox |
| Epic (build roadmap) | github.com/fgarofalo56/csa-inabox/issues/279 |
| Documentation | fgarofalo56.github.io/csa-inabox/csa-loom/ |
| Quick start (60 min) | docs/fiab/deployment/quickstart.md |
Back page¶
Forward migration¶
When Microsoft Fabric reaches your audit boundary, Loom forward- migrates 1:1:
| Loom artifact | Fabric equivalent | Effort |
|---|---|---|
| Delta tables (ADLS Gen2) | OneLake Delta tables | Zero data movement (OneLake shortcut) |
| dbt models | dbt in Fabric Data Factory | Low (dbt-fabric adapter) |
| Databricks notebooks | Fabric Spark notebooks | Medium (runtime swap) |
| TMDL semantic models | Direct Lake on OneLake | Medium (re-author for native Direct Lake) |
| ADX databases / KQL | Fabric Eventhouse | Low (same engine) |
| Activator rules | Fabric Reflex | Low-Medium (JSON port) |
| Data Agent configs | Fabric Data Agents | Low (config export/import) |
| Purview catalog | Fabric Purview | Zero (same engine) |
You are not trapped in Loom; you are bridged into Fabric.
Hybrid topology¶
The most common federal pattern: - Fabric Commercial for public datasets + cross-agency analytics + exec Power BI - CSA Loom Gov for CUI / classified mission data + agency-internal workloads - Cross-cloud B2B + APIM bridges between
Compliance posture¶
| Boundary | Attestations |
|---|---|
| Commercial | FedRAMP High + DoD IL2 |
| GCC | FedRAMP High + DoD IL2 |
| GCC-High / IL4 | FedRAMP High + DoD IL4 + ITAR + HIPAA BAA |
| DoD IL5 (v1.1) | FedRAMP High + DoD IL5 + CNSSI 1253 |
Cost (sample F8 deployment)¶
| Component | Approximate $/month |
|---|---|
| Power BI Premium F8 | \(1,049 (Commercial) / ~\)1,200 (Gov-H) |
| Databricks Premium | $500-2,500 |
| Azure Data Explorer | $500-600 |
| ADLS Gen2 (10 TB) | $200-250 |
| Azure OpenAI (50K TPM) | $200-600 |
| Misc (KV, LA, Search, Purview, Containers, Functions) | $700-1,200 |
| Total | ~$3,100-6,000/mo |
CSA Loom IP itself is free in v1.
5-day workshop¶
Cloud Center of Excellence workshop available in two variants: - Federal CoE (focus: FedRAMP / IL4 / IL5 / ITAR / CMMC) - Commercial CoE (focus: regulated commercial verticals)
Five-day curriculum: Foundation → Ingest → Transform → BI + AI → Operate + Forward-Migrate.
Contact¶
| Channel | Where |
|---|---|
| Microsoft federal account team | #csa-loom-federal Teams channel |
| GitHub Issues | github.com/fgarofalo56/csa-inabox/issues |
| Documentation | fgarofalo56.github.io/csa-inabox/csa-loom/ |
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