Power Platform ALM Demo

Summary

Environments

The following Power Platforms are used as part of this project.

Name	Description
DEV	Main development environment will all work is performed on the solution
BUILD	Build environment that is used by GitHub actions for building solution
TEST	Test environment that is used by GitHub actions
HOTFIX	Special hotfix environment to be used for working on hotfixes and keeping dev work isolated from hotfixes
PROD	Production environment that will host the final solution for production use

GitHub Actions

Environment Variables / Secrets

Name	Description
CLIENT_ID	The Client ID from the App Registration for Power Platform
TENANT_ID	The Tenant ID for the Tenant hosting the Power Platform solution
ENVIRONMENT_URL	The URL for the Power Platform environment
BUILD_ENVIRONMENT_URL	The URL for the Power Platform Build environment
TEST_ENVIRONMENT_URL	The URL for the Power Platform Test environment
PRODUCTION_ENVIRONMENT_URL	The URL for the Power Platform Production environmnet
PowerPlatformSPN	The Secret for the Client ID that has been registered for Power Platform. This is stored in secrets on GitHub
GITHUB_TOKEN

Create App Registration in Azure for Dataverse (Power Platform)

Within Azure, create an App Registration with API access to Dataverse.

Store App Registration Secret in GitHub Environments

Within GitHub, create an environment to store the App Registration Secret. In GitHub under Environments you can store secrets (secure information) so that it will be available but is secured.

backfill-main-to-dev.yml

Export solution from DEV as unmanaged, upload export solution to GitHub artifact store, pack solution as unmanaged and deploy to dev/hotfix

export-and-branch.yml

Export unmanaged solution from environmnet , unpack the solution, prepare for check-in, commit and create branch. Once this workflow completes a Pull Request will be needed to merge the new branch into the Main branch.

Inputs: solution_name: The name of the solution to be export from Power Platform Environment. solution_exported_folder

Input Name	Required	Default	Description
solution_name	Yes	ALMLab	name of the solution to worked on from Power Platform
solution_exported_folder	Yes	out/exported/	folder name for staging the exported solution do not change
solution_folder	Yes	out/solutions/	staging the unpacked solution folder before check-in do not change
solution_target_folder	Yes	solutions/	folder name to be created and checked in do not change

Steps:

1. actions/checkout@v2
2. who-am-i action
3. export-solution action
4. unpack-solultion action
5. branch-solution, prepare it, for Pull Request

hotfix-export-and-branch-solutions.yml

release-action-call.yml

Trigger action that is initiated when a new release is created in GitHub. This action will then call release-solution-to-prod-with-inputs to handle importing a managed solution from the Main branch into the production Power Platform environment.

release-solution-to-prod-with-inputs.yml

This action is called from release-action-call when a new release is created in GitHub. Once a new release create this action will use the Main branch to pack the solution and import into production as a managed solution.

Inputs

Steps: convert-to-managed

1. actions/checkout@v2
2. Pack solution
3. Import solution as unmanaged to build env
4. Export solution as managed
5. Upload the ready to ship solution to GitHub artifact store release-to-staging
6. actions/checkout@v2
7. Fetch the ready to ship solution from GitHub artifact store

Solution