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CSA Loom — the Microsoft Fabric experience for Azure tenants where Fabric isn't yet available: lakehouses, warehouses, notebooks, semantic models, Activator rules, Data Agents, across Commercial, GCC, GCC-High, and DoD IL5

App tutorials — from an empty workspace to a working result

Every entry below is a from-scratch deep dive for one CSA Loom app (a curated content bundle you install from /apps). Each one starts with an empty workspace and ends with something that actually works: a real Azure-native backend responding, seeded rows you can query, and a stated way to verify it.

What an app is (and is not)

An app is a bundle of workspace items plus their starter content. Installing it (a) creates each item in the workspace you pick, and (b) — when Deploy artifacts to live Azure services is ON — runs each item's real Phase-2 provisioner against ADLS Gen2 / Synapse / ADX / AI Search / Azure Monitor / Event Hubs. Item types with no provisioner install as Cosmos-only starter content (still fully editable; the editor pushes them to the backend on Save). Microsoft Fabric is never required: every provisioner's default path is Azure-native, and a Fabric backend is opt-in behind an explicit LOOM_<ITEM>_BACKEND=fabric plus a bound workspace.

The tutorials

Tutorial App You end up with
RAG Builder app-rag-builder A live hybrid AI Search index answering a grounded question through a prompt flow, with an evaluation suite
FedRAMP Compliance Tracker app-fedramp-tracker A 13-family NIST 800-53 scorecard with worst-child rollup + an ADX compliance-events dashboard
FinOps Cost Optimizer app-finops-cost A seeded cost lakehouse, a semantic model, and a 5-page executive report rendering real spend
Data Steward Console app-data-steward Four Purview data products (Promoted → your Certified sign-off) + a 17-term glossary + a star-schema model
Pipeline Designer app-pipeline-designer The same medallion ETL on three orchestrators (Synapse, ADF, Databricks) landing a gold star schema
Lakehouse Inspector app-lakehouse-inspector A bronze/silver/gold Delta lakehouse with 10 seeded tables + a profiling notebook
Mirror Onboarding app-fabric-mirror-onboard An Azure SQL source replicated into Bronze via ADF CDC, with a row-count parity notebook
Workspace Monitoring app-workspace-monitoring A read-only ADX telemetry database fed by Azure Monitor + a six-tile dashboard
Supercharge medallion journey the 7 app-supercharge-* packs 117 Azure-native Spark notebooks, one representative bronze → silver → gold chain proven green

The shape every tutorial follows

  1. Prerequisites — what must exist before you start (an account, a workspace, and the specific Azure backends this app touches).
  2. Install — the exact /apps walk, and what each wizard control does.
  3. What gets provisioned — item by item, which provisioner runs, which real Azure surface it hits, and the honest gate it shows when a backend is absent.
  4. Seeded data — what rows exist the moment install returns.
  5. First meaningful task — one real end-to-end action, not a tour.
  6. Verify it worked — the check that proves the backend actually responded.
  7. Troubleshooting / cleanup.