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Parity gap — /deployment-pipelines

Loom route: /deployment-pipelines (rendered by apps/fiab-console/app/deployment-pipelines/page.tsxItemsByTypePane filtered to data-pipeline, synapse-pipeline, adf-pipeline, copy-job, dbt-job, airflow-job) Fabric reference: Microsoft Fabric deployment pipelines — https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/cicd/deployment-pipelines/intro-to-deployment-pipelines (Dev → Test → Prod stage promotion across workspaces) Loom screenshot: temp/parity/page-deployment-pipelines-loom.png Captured: 2026-05-26

Critical conceptual mismatch

Fabric's "Deployment pipelines" is NOT the same thing as "data pipelines."

Fabric Deployment Pipelines is a stage-promotion feature: Dev workspace → Test workspace → Prod workspace, with diff-then-promote semantics. It's a Power-BI-borrowed feature for CI/CD-lite without YAML.

Loom's /deployment-pipelines lists execution pipelines (data-pipeline, ADF pipeline, Synapse pipeline, copy-job, dbt-job, airflow-job). The page title borrows Fabric's term but delivers an entirely different surface.

The page subtitle even says "Promote items across Development → Test → Production" but then renders a flat list of pipeline-items, with no Dev/Test/Prod columns, no Compare action, no Deploy action, no stage selectors.

Phase 3 — Side-by-side gap matrix

# Fabric Deployment Pipelines element Loom Deployment pipelines element Status Severity
1 3-column layout: Development / Test / Production Single grid of pipeline items missing BLOCKER
2 Workspace assigned to each stage Not present missing BLOCKER
3 Item list per stage with diff indicator (changed / new / deleted) Not present missing BLOCKER
4 "Deploy to Test" / "Deploy to Production" buttons Not present missing BLOCKER
5 Compare changes view (side-by-side diff) Not present missing BLOCKER
6 Stage rules / per-stage configuration overrides Not present missing MAJOR
7 Deployment history / audit Not present missing MAJOR
8 Per-pipeline "+ Create deployment pipeline" wizard "+ New item" opens generic Fabric-style picker (creates a data-pipeline, not a deployment pipeline) missing BLOCKER
9 Page header "Deployment pipelines" Present but title is misleading misleading MAJOR
10 Subtitle accurately describes what's listed Subtitle says "Promote items across Development → Test → Production" but page shows item-list, not promotion UX dishonest BLOCKER

Phase 4 — Functional verification

Control Result
New item dialog Creates a data-pipeline, not a deployment pipeline
Filter input Filters across pipeline-item types
Card link Goes to /items/[type]/[id] (individual pipeline editor, not deployment pipeline)

Honest grade

Grade: D — Conceptual vaporware

This is a particularly bad case under no-vaporware.md: - The page title and subtitle promise a Dev→Test→Prod deployment pipeline feature. - The page actually delivers a filtered list of execution pipelines (data-pipeline, ADF, Synapse pipelines). - There is no stage promotion UI, no diff, no deploy action. - The header is misleading branding without the underlying feature.

This is exactly the pattern banned by no-vaporware.md: "looks like data but isn't, crashes on click" — substituting "looks like a feature but isn't" — and the rule explicitly forbids: "honest config-only state: when a runtime requires infrastructure that isn't deployed yet, the UI MUST show a Fluent UI MessageBar with intent='warning', the exact env var name to set / role to grant / resource to provision."

There is no MessageBar telling the user "Deployment Pipelines feature requires Fabric workspaces + diff service + bicep module X."

  1. Either build the real Deployment Pipelines feature: 3-column Dev/Test/Prod stage view, workspace selectors per stage, real item-diff via Cosmos compare, real Deploy action (which creates an item in the target workspace), deployment history persisted. This is a significant feature.
  2. Or rename the page to "Pipelines" (no "Deployment") and rewrite the subtitle to honestly say "Every data-pipeline, ADF pipeline, Synapse pipeline, copy job, dbt job, and Airflow job in your tenant." Remove the "Promote items across Development → Test → Production" language since it's not implemented.
  3. Update the left nav label accordingly.
  4. If keeping the "Deployment" name, add a top-of-page MessageBar saying "Deployment Pipelines feature is in progress — see docs/fiab/deployment-pipelines-parity-spec.md. The list below shows execution pipelines available to promote once the Deploy action lands."