In this article I will explain how to create a Power platform environment and connect on it through Azure Devops pipelines. Power platform is a low code environment provided by Microsoft that can implement services and functionality quickly with a GUI.
In order to follow the tutorial you will need an Azure subscription and a power platform subscription which will be connected.
First things first, you should create a power platform environment. You can do this, by logging in the Power Platform admin center and pressing the New button.
Then you should select the type and region and also the database connection. I chose a sample database so that I get automatically data to test.
By choosing the trial subscription the environment only works for 30 days. This is good enough for the purposes of this article but not for production environments. After the provision of the environment you will get the environment URL and also some sessions details that will be needed for Azure devops.
You can find the sessions details on the right upper corner.
The you will need to create an app registration on your Azure subscription.
Press New registration
Give a name and select which accounts could access this application.
After the provision of the application, you will have to set the API permissions. Select Dynamics CRM -> User impersonation
Then you will have to create a secret for the application. Go to certificates and secrets and create a new client secret. Copy the value, as it will be needed later.
On Azure Devops you should create a service connection. Go to project settings -> Service connections and add a new connection. Select power platform on the connection type.
You should then add the connection details gathered on previous steps. Client secret and application ID from the Azure application that you created. The server URL and tenant ID can be gathered from power platform admin center.
Then go and create a new Pipeline on Azure Devops and add the below two steps. The power platform tools installer is required any time you want to connect on power platform. This will instruct the build agent to download the necessary tools for the deployment. The WhoAmI task will authenticate with the instance and verify if the connection is working.
Edit the WhoAmI step and include the service connection
Check the result of the task, as it should be successful (Green)
