Ships and governs
Fabric Runway
A governed delivery accelerator for Databricks Apps and GenAI workloads.
Your team ships Databricks Apps on a cadence instead of one at a time. Templates start governed, every pull request gets a preview environment, and a failed evaluation blocks promotion, so releasing gets boring in the way it should be.
3 common questions, answered below ↓- Role in the family
- Ships and governs
- Databricks surfaces
- Databricks AppsAsset BundlesUnity CatalogAI GatewayMLflow
- Status
- Templates, delivery pipeline, and governance layer are implemented. A public read-only preview runs at preview.runway.fabric.pro.
- Documentation
- runway.fabric.pro
The problem
Teams can build a Databricks App. What they cannot do consistently is ship one repeatedly, with approvals, preview environments, per-environment secrets, evaluation gates, and a catalogue of what is running and what it costs.
How it works
A thin multi-tenant control plane that runs as a Databricks App inside the customer's own workspace, plus opinionated templates and a governance layer. Git push triggers bundle validation and deployment; each pull request gets a preview environment; approval workflows are platform state machines and quality gates are policy checkpoints, so a failed evaluation structurally blocks promotion.
What it does
Templates that start governed
Scaffolds for RAG agents, Unity Catalog tool agents, and Genie-embedded analytics apps, pre-wired to the gates.
Preview per pull request
Every change gets an environment before it gets an opinion.
Evaluation gates on promotion
An agent version promotes only if its evaluation suite passes. The gate is structural, not procedural.
App catalogue
Owner, version, Unity Catalog lineage, and cost for everything running in the workspace.
Your team ships Databricks Apps on a cadence instead of one at a time. Templates start governed, every pull request gets a preview environment, and a failed evaluation blocks promotion, so releasing gets boring in the way it should be.
FAQ
Fabric Runway, answered
Does Runway run in our workspace or yours?
Yours. The control plane is a Databricks App inside your own workspace. TechFabric-hosted is available as an option, but in-workspace is the default so your data never leaves your boundary.
What does a quality gate actually block?
Promotion. An agent or model version only moves forward if its evaluation suite passes, and the gate is a policy checkpoint in the pipeline rather than a step someone can skip when a release is late.
Do we get preview environments?
Every pull request gets one, with per-environment secrets synced to secret scopes. The point is that a change gets an environment before it gets an opinion.