# Fabric Airlift

Governed migration factory for Databricks Migration & Modernization: assess, convert, validate, certify, and cut over with provenance. Full docs: https://airlift.fabric.pro/docs
Start new Azure clients with the seven-step guided setup: https://airlift.fabric.pro/docs/getting-started/client-onboarding

- [Architecture](/docs/architecture): Understand Airlift's domain module, governed mutation pipeline, workers, adapters, and extension boundaries.
- [Deploy Airlift](/docs/deployment): Deploy the Airlift console, durable store, Lakebridge jobs, and Temporal worker in a Databricks environment.
- [Fabric Airlift developer documentation](/docs): Move estates to Databricks faster with governed proof — Connect, Inventory, Scope, Build, Move, Prove, and Go-live in one Airlift App, with certificates your auditor can verify.
- [How Airlift works](/docs/migration-method): Understand how Airlift turns assessment, conversion, validation, and cutover tools into one governed migration lifecycle.
- [Parity and migration certificates](/docs/parity-certificates): Two honest artifacts — a depth-specific parity facet and a signed migration certificate minted only from admitted readiness evidence.
- [Production readiness](/docs/status): The evidence a project must produce before using Airlift for assessment, certification, and automated cutover.
- [Assessment to frozen plan](/docs/getting-started/assessment-to-plan): Build an accepted inventory, dependency graph, Databricks target blueprint, wave scenario, and immutable assessment pack through Airlift.
- [Choose a developer path](/docs/getting-started/choose-a-path): Start from the migration job you are running or the Airlift integration surface you need to implement.
- [Guided client onboarding](/docs/getting-started/client-onboarding): Set up a Synapse or SQL Server migration through the Databricks App or the governed fa CLI, with exact inputs, outputs, and evidence boundaries.
- [Core concepts](/docs/getting-started/concepts): Learn the Airlift ontology, the executive funnel, readiness tracks, waves, and evidence artifacts.
- [Configuration map](/docs/getting-started/configuration): Understand local, durable, Databricks, Lakebridge, evidence, signing, and Temporal configuration boundaries.
- [Conversion to remediation tutorial](/docs/getting-started/conversion-to-remediation): Run a synthetic accepted scope through batch conversion, immutable artifact registration, and independently reviewed remediation.
- [Demonstrate an Azure migration](/docs/getting-started/demo-walkthrough): A developer-oriented demo script for presenting the Synapse and SQL Server Azure migrations with Airlift — visible artifacts, evidence boundaries, and next actions.
- [Create a migration engagement](/docs/getting-started/engagements): Use governed engagement and connection-binding actions to establish migration scope without placing credentials in Airlift.
- [Guided migration journey (App walkthrough)](/docs/getting-started/guided-migration-journey): The primary App-first walkthrough of one Azure Synapse to Databricks Lakehouse migration — artifacts first, with one governed next action per phase.
- [Use the in-app guidance](/docs/getting-started/in-app-guidance): Learn how Airlift's first-use tour, persistent Guide, and contextual help explain the migration journey without changing governed state.
- [Local lifecycle cookbook](/docs/getting-started/local-lifecycle-cookbook): A runnable walkthrough of the governed migration lifecycle on the SDK's in-memory runtime — configured authorization, platform bootstrap, planning, conversion, residue, evidence, certification, and offline verification.
- [Local lifecycle cookbook — full listing](/docs/getting-started/local-lifecycle-listing): The complete runnable source of the local lifecycle walkthrough, generated from the SDK's shipped example.
- [Quickstart](/docs/getting-started/quickstart): Start in the Databricks App to create an engagement and follow the guided migration journey; use the CLI and SDK as the automation surface.
- [Transfer and deploy a wave](/docs/getting-started/transfer-to-deployment): Developer tutorial for moving accepted data, resuming safely, and binding generated Databricks artifacts to Runway evidence.
- [App walkthroughs](/docs/getting-started/ui-walkthroughs): Annotated Airlift App screenshots with matching fa commands — the catalog companion to the guided migration journey.
- [What leaders approve](/docs/getting-started/what-leaders-approve): Common human approval moments in an Airlift migration — scope acceptance, plan freeze, wave approval, waivers, business acceptance, and cutover — plus separation-of-duties rules and the hard agent boundary.
- [When something fails (the Fix list)](/docs/getting-started/when-something-fails): Residue and discrepancies are normal specialist work. Learn the Fix list, the blocked-reason model, who acts next, recovery actions in the App, and the honesty rule for stale evidence.
- [Databricks application-kit commands](/docs/cli/application-kits): Plan and evidence-qualify portable Databricks Apps and Lakebase operational applications without duplicating Runway deployment.
- [Enterprise application-pack commands](/docs/cli/application-packs): Compile SAP BDC and Dataverse business objects into governed ingestion, semantic validation, consumer transition, and remediation plans.
- [Capability commands](/docs/cli/capabilities): Query and govern the evidence-backed source capability matrix with fa.
- [Catalog commands](/docs/cli/catalog): Inspect the exact governed action and validation-profile contracts in the installed Airlift generation.
- [Certificate commands](/docs/cli/certificates): Inspect and independently verify system-minted Airlift migration certificates.
- [Command reference](/docs/cli/command-reference): Syntax, output, and exit behavior for every command in the Airlift CLI.
- [Cutover and hypercare commands](/docs/cli/cutover): Developer reference for frozen scopes, runbooks, rehearsals, operational evidence, durable execution, incidents, and source disposition.
- [Databricks-native commands](/docs/cli/databricks-native): Inventory and govern Unity Catalog, workspace, security, Lakeflow, serverless, runtime, dashboard, cost, and performance modernization.
- [Delivery and claim commands](/docs/cli/delivery): Qualify engagements, generate delivery kits, validate connector policies, gate external value claims, check activation evidence, and scan public content.
- [fa doctor](/docs/cli/doctor): Validate local or production configuration shape without connecting, mutating, or printing secrets.
- [Live evidence commands](/docs/cli/evidence): Inspect, admit, query, and export immutable migration evidence without copying provider verdicts or secrets into Airlift.
- [Generated command index](/docs/cli/generated-command-index): Canonical fa command groups and resource paths generated from the installed CLI contract.
- [Automation (Airlift CLI)](/docs/cli): Automate governed migration work from scripts and CI with the fa CLI — the Automation surface alongside the human Databricks App journey.
- [SQL Server to Lakebase](/docs/cli/lakebase): Compile a SQL Server inventory for Databricks Lakebase, run the compatibility test, and admit the resulting artifacts without overstating proof.
- [Pipeline import and generation](/docs/cli/migration-ir): Import native ADF exports, generate concrete Databricks files, validate their bytes, and register immutable artifact references.
- [Migration-pack commands](/docs/cli/migration-packs): Compile, register, and certify executable SQL Server, Snowflake, Redshift, Oracle, Teradata, and Hadoop migration packs.
- [Modernization and value commands](/docs/cli/modernization-and-value): CLI commands for native release governance, A/B evidence, and engagement-specific value measurement.
- [Authenticated automation](/docs/cli/remote-automation): Configure the remote CLI, understand tenant derivation, and automate migration discovery and planning safely.
- [Source planning commands](/docs/cli/sources): Inspect source variants, distinguish implementation routing from achieved proof, compile archetype-aware plans, and check certification evidence.
- [Synapse golden-path commands](/docs/cli/synapse): Validate, compile, generate, and govern a Synapse-to-Databricks migration bundle.
- [Airlift Migration Assistant](/docs/integrations/airlift-genie): Configure bounded, real-time migration guidance with Unity AI Gateway, Model Serving, or a secret-backed external model without giving an LLM migration authority.
- [Databricks access & integrations](/docs/integrations/databricks-access): Inspect the observed access state of an Airlift App deployment and the fail-closed state of its Databricks target integrations.
- [Evaluator readiness](/docs/integrations/evaluator-readiness): Inspect the derived evaluation-ready label for a frozen evaluation candidate — when it is true, when it fails closed, and how candidate freezes and rehearsals are recorded.
- [Fabric Experiments](/docs/integrations/experiments): Connect Airlift validation specifications to Experiments BDD, parity, performance, and Databricks evidence.
- [Harness and Lakebridge](/docs/integrations/harness-lakebridge): Compose bounded repair agents, Databricks job transport, and deterministic Lakebridge conversion under Airlift governance.
- [Fabric family composition](/docs/integrations): Use Airlift with Platform, Harness, Experiments, Runway, Radar, and Tower without duplicating state ownership.
- [Fabric Platform](/docs/integrations/platform): See how Platform Host governs all Airlift mutations, policies, events, idempotency, authorization, and projections.
- [Fabric Radar](/docs/integrations/radar): Use operational observation windows and anomaly evidence without making Airlift a monitoring product.
- [Use Airlift with Fabric Runway](/docs/integrations/runway): Decide when to use fa or fr, declare a migration release requirement, and consume verified Runway evidence without duplicating deployment state.
- [Fabric Tower](/docs/integrations/tower): Coordinate human and agent work in Tower while keeping migration truth and gate transitions in Airlift.
- [Unity Catalog evidence spine](/docs/integrations/uc-evidence): Inspect the derived Databricks-native evidence state — the governed analytics projection into Unity Catalog, artifact-to-target reconciliation, and fail-closed coverage.
- [Register migration artifacts](/docs/migration/artifacts): Record immutable migration outputs, provider references, content digests, and producer lineage in Airlift.
- [Run the assessment](/docs/migration/assessment): Execute Lakebridge Analyzer as a workspace job and turn its output into governed estate evidence.
- [Build a conversion factory](/docs/migration/conversion): Create scoped conversion batches, record attempts, register immutable artifacts, and route failed objects to remediation.
- [Production cutover and rollback](/docs/migration/cutover): Build a frozen, rehearsed, observable cutover wave and execute it through Airlift's durable workflow.
- [Implement the migration lifecycle](/docs/migration): Compose source tools, adapters, governed actions, evidence, and cutover effects into a complete Databricks migration.
- [Inventory and dependencies](/docs/migration/inventory): Normalize Lakebridge output into migration objects, dependency evidence, complexity, and visible exclusions.
- [Modernization studio](/docs/migration/modernization): Build, validate, and promote Databricks-native improvements without weakening the certified migration baseline.
- [Operational application modernization](/docs/migration/operational-applications): Turn migration findings into portable Databricks Apps and Lakebase releases with governed state, synthetic BDD, branch rehearsal, and evidence-qualified delivery.
- [Pipeline and code modernization](/docs/migration/pipeline-modernization): Developer workflow for importing orchestration metadata, generating Databricks files where supported, and governing the remaining implementation work.
- [Plan cutover waves](/docs/migration/planning-waves): Create dependency-aware, rehearsable waves with ownership, windows, approvals, and frozen scope.
- [Qualify a generated release](/docs/migration/release-qualification): Verify generated bytes, bind runtime configuration and residue decisions, observe an fr-created Runway deployment, and require Experiments evidence for the same artifact digest.
- [Engineering remediation](/docs/migration/residue): Diagnose, assign, repair, validate, and independently review conversion residue without hiding human delivery work.
- [Migration status](/docs/migration/status): Read the governed eight-phase engagement projection in the Airlift App or CLI and understand exactly why work is blocked.
- [Build a resumable data transfer](/docs/migration/transfer): Plan, run, checkpoint, resume, and reconcile data movement through Airlift's governed transfer API and CLI.
- [Build and run validation suites](/docs/migration/validation): Generate object-specific checks, execute them with Fabric Experiments, triage failures, and prepare migration certificates.
- [Assurance center](/docs/operations/assurance-center): Read the readiness matrix, migration certificates, waivers, and evidence exports in the Databricks App.
- [Conversion factory controls](/docs/operations/conversion-factory-controls): An engineering leadership guide to scope, throughput, quality, human capacity, and promotion decisions.
- [Cutover control room](/docs/operations/cutover-control-room): Read production blockers, inspect frozen evidence, and take governed cutover and hypercare actions in the Databricks App.
- [Industrialize migration delivery](/docs/operations/delivery-industrialization): Engineering-leadership guide to qualification, operating envelopes, reusable assets, scale proof, privacy, activation evidence, and external claim governance.
- [Development assurance](/docs/operations/development-assurance): Exercise a complete migration journey in development without turning self-reviewed evidence into production authority.
- [Evidence ledger and exports](/docs/operations/evidence-ledger): Understand immutable event evidence, content-digested exports, certificate envelopes, and retention requirements.
- [Operate Airlift](/docs/operations): Run Airlift as a high-assurance migration system of record across identity, evidence, recovery, and scale.
- [Migration-pack certification](/docs/operations/migration-pack-certification): Repeatedly prove six executable source packs without overstating live-source, client, or production readiness.
- [Observability and operational evidence](/docs/operations/observability): Observe Airlift without turning dashboards or sibling projections into a second source of truth.
- [Failure and recovery](/docs/operations/recovery): Recover governed invocations, projections, adapters, workflows, transfer jobs, and uncertain cutovers without duplicate effects.
- [Roles and separation of duties](/docs/operations/roles-and-separation): Configure tenant-bound Airlift roles, worker and agent principals, validation producers, and independent approvals.
- [Scale and performance](/docs/operations/scale): Benchmark event hydration, projections, wave fan-out, and evidence storage for your migration estate.
- [Account-independent Synapse certification](/docs/operations/synapse-certification): Prove Airlift’s Synapse path without a source account while preserving honest client and production gates.
- [Measure engagement value](/docs/operations/value-measurement): Capture evidence-backed effort observations and publish scope-bound value without universal acceleration claims.
- [Waivers, staleness, and revocation](/docs/operations/waivers-and-staleness): Govern exceptions without weakening non-waivable controls or hiding evidence drift.
- [Governed action catalog](/docs/reference/action-catalog): The 110 versioned Airlift Platform actions grouped by migration responsibility.
- [Generated capability catalog](/docs/reference/capability-catalog): Canonical Airlift source variants, capability identifiers, proof levels, and delivery modes for application developers.
- [Configuration reference](/docs/reference/configuration): Environment variable names and fail-closed semantics for Airlift console, worker, store, evidence, Lakebridge, and Temporal composition.
- [Errors and recovery reference](/docs/reference/errors): Interpret authorization, policy, state, adapter, workflow, evidence, and verification failures.
- [Events and identifiers](/docs/reference/events-and-identifiers): Airlift entity ID prefixes, organization slugs, subject types, domain events, and Platform adapter/compliance evidence.
- [Airlift reference](/docs/reference): Exact action, event, identifier, validation, configuration, error, and security contracts.
- [Organization membership](/docs/reference/organization-membership): Govern the projected organization membership registry that replaces install-time authorization rows after bootstrap.
- [Releases and versioning](/docs/reference/releases): Understand Airlift package roles, independent version lines, and reproducible installation in CI.
- [Security model](/docs/reference/security): Airlift trust boundaries for identity, tenancy, agents, evidence, secrets, approvals, and external effects.
- [Source registry API](/docs/reference/source-registry): Resolve source packs, variants, archetypes, adapter contracts, deterministic plans, and certification manifests from TypeScript.
- [Validation profile reference](/docs/reference/validation-profiles): Built-in object classes, nine readiness tracks, verdicts, providers, and evidence-depth semantics.
- [Athena to Databricks](/docs/sources/athena): Govern Glue Catalog metadata, S3 data, Athena SQL, federation decisions, validation, and consumer cutover.
- [BigQuery to Databricks](/docs/sources/bigquery): Assess and govern BigQuery datasets, routines, scheduled queries, data movement, validation, and cutover.
- [Capability registry](/docs/sources/capability-registry): Prove automation, external tooling, and human delivery coverage for every source variant and migration capability.
- [Certify a source profile](/docs/sources/certification): Add or certify source support without turning an upstream connector row into an unsupported product claim.
- [Connection diagnostics](/docs/sources/connection-diagnostics): Source-pack v2 connectivity and permission diagnostics — observed-state derivation, admitted recording, and verification.
- [Databricks-native modernization](/docs/sources/databricks-native): Use Airlift for Unity Catalog, workspace, security, serverless, Lakeflow, runtime, dashboard, cost, and performance modernization without an external source.
- [Db2 and mainframe data to Databricks](/docs/sources/db2): Govern Db2 LUW, Db2 for z/OS, and Db2 for IBM i inventory, unload or log capture, batch validation, and cutover.
- [Build a migration project](/docs/sources/developer-workflow): Turn an Airlift source pack into adapters, governed state, independent evidence, certificates, and a cutover wave.
- [Dynamics 365 to Databricks](/docs/sources/dynamics-365): Govern Dataverse, Finance and Operations, Sales, and Customer Service ingestion and modernization.
- [ETL modernization](/docs/sources/etl-modernization): Compile ADF, SSIS, PowerCenter, and SAS estates into governed Databricks implementation, validation, deployment, and remediation work.
- [Azure Event Hubs to Databricks](/docs/sources/event-hubs): Govern Event Hubs streams, checkpoints, capture files, parallel validation, and consumer cutover.
- [Greenplum to Databricks](/docs/sources/greenplum): Govern Greenplum SQL, distributions, external tables, parallel unload, validation, and modernization.
- [Hadoop](/docs/sources/hadoop): Implement Hadoop migrations by decomposing Hive, Impala, Oozie, Pig, Sqoop, Spark, MapReduce, storage, metastore, and security workloads.
- [Source systems](/docs/sources): Build typed, archetype-aware migration projects for warehouses, databases, ERP and SaaS applications, ETL platforms, mainframes, query engines, and streams.
- [Kafka to Databricks](/docs/sources/kafka): Govern Kafka, Confluent Cloud, and Amazon MSK stream inventory, checkpoint bootstrap, parallel run, validation, and cutover.
- [Amazon Kinesis to Databricks](/docs/sources/kinesis): Govern Kinesis Data Streams and Firehose inventory, sequence checkpoints, parallel runs, validation, and cutover.
- [MySQL to Databricks](/docs/sources/mysql): Govern MySQL, Aurora MySQL, RDS MySQL, and MariaDB snapshots, change capture, validation, and cutover.
- [Netezza](/docs/sources/netezza): Implement Netezza migrations with Analyzer, BladeBridge conversion, explicit transfer adapters, Experiments parity, and appliance residue tracking.
- [Oracle](/docs/sources/oracle): Implement Oracle and ODI migrations with profiler constraints, PL/SQL conversion, SCN-aware transfer, and Lakebridge reconciliation.
- [PostgreSQL to Databricks](/docs/sources/postgresql): Govern PostgreSQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, and RDS PostgreSQL snapshots, CDC, code disposition, validation, and cutover.
- [Presto to Databricks](/docs/sources/presto): Inventory Presto catalogs and queries, choose federation or materialization, validate semantics, and govern cutover.
- [Amazon Redshift](/docs/sources/redshift): Implement Redshift serverless and provisioned migrations with profiling variants, BladeBridge conversion, S3 transfer, and reconciliation.
- [Salesforce to Databricks](/docs/sources/salesforce): Govern Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud entity ingestion and customer-data modernization.
- [SAP to Databricks](/docs/sources/sap): Build governed SAP BDC, S/4HANA, ECC, BW/4HANA, HANA, and Datasphere migration routes.
- [ServiceNow to Databricks](/docs/sources/servicenow): Govern ServiceNow tables, dictionary metadata, audit history, attachments, ingestion, and IT operations validation.
- [Snowflake](/docs/sources/snowflake): Implement Snowflake migrations including SQL, tasks, streams, stages, dbt, semi-structured data, transfer, and reconciliation.
- [Source-pack contract](/docs/sources/source-packs): Understand archetypes, variants, adapter boundaries, support levels, and plan schemas before integrating a source.
- [SQL Server](/docs/sources/sql-server): Implement SQL Server, Azure SQL, and RDS for SQL Server migrations with Lakebridge, governed Airlift actions, transfer evidence, and Databricks validation.
- [Azure Synapse](/docs/sources/synapse): Import Synapse and ADF metadata, generate Databricks implementation files, and govern migration evidence from assessment through cutover.
- [Teradata](/docs/sources/teradata): Implement Teradata migrations across SQL, BTEQ, load utilities, transfer throughput, hash-aware reconciliation, and Databricks modernization.
- [Trino and Starburst to Databricks](/docs/sources/trino): Govern Trino or Starburst catalogs, queries, connector routes, validation, and consumer cutover.
- [Vertica to Databricks](/docs/sources/vertica): Govern Vertica SQL, projections, exports, reconciliation, performance, and cutover.
- [Workday to Databricks](/docs/sources/workday): Govern Workday business objects, reports, effective-dated history, ingestion, validation, and analytics cutover.