I am doing some research for Powerapps integration with Azure DevOps.
However there is limitated information for it.
It is possible to integrate powerapps inside a Task for AzureDevops?
Based on, that we have a .zip file with the Powerapp, and we want to create a Build and Release/Deploy for several environments.
Thank You.
It is possible to integrate powerapps inside a Task for AzureDevops?
Yes it is.
You can leverage the Solution concept of the Microsoft Power Platform and the Power Apps BuildTools (preview) extension for Azure DevOps.
Update 11/2020: This is now GA and called Power Platform Build Tools
I've written a complete step-by-step guide on this topic:
A Continuous Delivery Approach for No-Code Solutions in Microsoft’s Power Platform
Bottom line:
With this build tool, you can automatically check-in a Solution into source control and deploy it using a continuous delivery approach with the help of Azure DevOps. See the screenshot for a sample configuration of the Export and Import Solution Task.
It works for everything you can organize inside a Solution, e.g.:
Power Apps
Power Automate Flows
AI Builder Models
Common Data Service Entities
It is possible to integrate powerapps inside a Task for AzureDevops?
I am afraid there is no such Task integrate powerapps for AzureDevops at this moment.
If you want to integrate powerapps with azure devops, you can follow the guide step by step:
Microsoft Teams – Integration with Visual Studio Team Services using PowerApps.
Besides, AFAIK, PowerApps should not be "Build/Deployed" through Azure Devops.
When you are developing with PowerApps, there is no way to do Source
Control. There are no source files. The only artifact you can version
control is the .zip file that you can export.
And
In PowerApps, you don’t have to build your code. Any change you make
to the application is live for you to test it. In that way it is very
productive. To publish the application you just click on the publish
button and it is live.
Check this great blog: PowerApps From A DevOps Perspective for some more details.
Hope this helps.
Solutions are a way to package your components in a single zip file and use Powerapps build tools to import your solution on to a different environment or tenant.
It is still a an improvement from manually importing each app or environment variable and then import it on to target system, but it lacks what we call as automation of deployment.
To provide an eg, I will explain what I have done, and what still constitutes of a manual task:
I created an enterprise level app using powerapp canvas model. My app consumes data from around 20 APIs. These API calls are implemented in power automate.
We have 4 environments, dev, sit, uat and prod. Now I cant keep on importing flows in each environment and change their api URLs to point to the deployed environment. So I used environment variables for each environment which stores api URLs for each environment. This can be done under solution.
Under the same solution, I added my app. So now my solution has 2 things, my app and the environment variable which consists of api URLs.
I then use powerapps build tools to move this solution from dev to sit.
Steps: use build tools tasks to perform the following
Export solution
Unpack it in git
Pack it
Import the solution.
This successfully moves my solution to sit.
But the solution environment variable still points to the dev url.
So I have to override environment variables to store sit URLs.
This manual intervention to edit environment variable is as good as doing all the tasks manually.
This was the case when PowerApps was first announced; however, this is no longer the case.
While it is technically true that there is no actual code that would be managed and deployed with a PowerApp or Flow but that doesn't mean that you can not use the power of Azure DevOps. Additionally, when creating a PowerApp / flow you would also be creating entities and even Model Driven apps - and these uses solutions - which naturally work well to deplooy within Azure DevOps.
Microsoft is building out this whole construct to enable all these to deploy...
While the whole incorporation of PowerApps and flows into Solutions is not fully baked yet - they are targeting to have this ready around the October time frame this year.
We have been talking to Microsoft about also enabling PowerApps and flows to follow the same expansion that solutions do so that they can take advantage of the full branching strategy.
So even though you would be simply exporting out zip files into your repo - you can still take advantage of the full devops pipeline which is highly recommended.
Use this component, it still on preview mode but is working fine on my side
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=microsoft-IsvExpTools.PowerApps-BuildTools
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The goal I'm trying to accomplish is migrating out of CVS to using Azure Repos. Currently BAR deployments are sent through CVS repos and then deployed to IBM Integration Bus. I would like to accomplish this same process through Azure DevOps.
I know this extension exists:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vsts.ibm-integration-bus&ssr=false#overview
However there is limited documentation available. I'm curious to know if anyone has had success using the above extension?
If not through the extension is there another solution available?
I have never used that extension myself.
The tasks involved in setting up a build and deploy pipeline are not difficult, so you should be able to roll your own.
See mqsicreatebar and mqsipackagebar for how to build the BAR files.
See mqsideploy for details of how to deploy the BAR files.
The rest will depend very much on your chosen source code control system and build orchestration technology.
I am having multiple logic apps in resorce group.How can i copy all and deploye to different RG.
what is best way to do so?
I am not prefering Moving resorces.
As an example, you can download all of the logic apps to visual studio, from there create parameter files and build Azure DevOps build/release pipelines to different resource groups. Such as dev, test, uat & prod resource groups. I am using this strategy to build and govern over 300 logic apps for one of my customers. Now I started from Visual studio but you could easily download your current logic apps using the cloud explorer in visual studio or directly from the Azure portal.
One of the things you will have to look out for is the API-connections, they tend to create new ones even when not asked for.
I am using Desktop Bridge with a c# Winforms application to make a package to publish to the store.
If I make my package locally using Desktop Bridge then I can upload it to the windows store successfully.
I am also now able to build and create the package artifact using a pipeline and I can see it in the Artifacts explorer.
I am having trouble following the docs on how to get the package into the store.
It mentions
ps
$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)\
AppxPackages\MyUWPApp__$(AppxVersion)_x86_x64_ARM_bundle.appxupload
Does ps mean powershell?
How do I get the YAML?
Or am I meant to build a release pipeline?
I tried looking at the release tasks but could not find anything that mentioned the Store.
This is a great article on how to build your package and deploy it to Hockey App (now App Center) but can be used to deploy to the store as well. I'm not sure exactly how you would convert it to YAML, but it shouldn't be too difficult.
https://mobilefirstcloudfirst.net/2016/02/continuous-deployment-of-windows-10-uwp-apps-to-hockeyapp-using-vsts/
Once you have the package built following the instructions in the article (It sound's like you already have), skip the Hockey App steps and instead publish to the store with this Azure DevOps extension task step: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MS-RDX-MRO.windows-store-publish
Instructions to use the extension are on the extensions web page. You'll have to have an Azure Active Directory account. If you don't have one, it's easy to set up and it's free!
To answer your questions
Does ps mean powershell? - I just browsed down through the article and I don't think so. Usually it's saying you need to give this value in a property in the build step.
YAML is pretty new, and there is not, as far as I know, an easy way to convert it to YAML.
You'll probably want to do this in two steps: 1) Build the package and upload the artifact. 2) Download and release the package. Step 1 should be done in a build, step 2 should be done in a release. I find splitting these steps into two very helpful when only the release fails. Then I don't have to rebuild the package to try again, I can just redeploy the release.
After installing Release Management client and connecting to my Visual Studio Online account I only see 4 actions.
Online I see that other people have a lot more actions in their toolbox:
What you are seeing is correct since in VSO you do pretty much everything in PowerShell using the Deploy Using PS/DSC action. I have a blog post series on Continuous Delivery with VSO here that might be of use in understanding how to get going.
As Graham pointed out what you are seeing is correct. On VSO RM only supports the DSC/PowerShell (vNext) pipelines. But the on premises product also supports the Agent based solution which is where you see all the additional actions and can add our own.
If you look at how the Agent based actions are created most are PowerShell and you can modify the PowerShell to work in a vNext pipeline. Here is an example of making a script work in both. That would require that the PowerShell be a part of your project so RM would be able to execute it during your release. Not as nice a solution as the Agent based but the next version of RM will address both of your concerns. There will be a way to establish a secure connection with Azure and a way for you to add custom actions or “Tasks”.
Keep an eye on DonovanBrown.com or follow me #DonovanBrown, I have blog post ready that I can’t post until the new RM is released. Before anyone asks I don’t have a date.
I am running a mobile service with an increasing amount of scripted functionality. I want to have these scripts somehow stored in a smart format for version control. I'm having hard time finding any information on such scenarios. Is it even possible Azure -> VS2012 (and TFS) or VS2012 (and TFS) -> Azure?
Currently that is not supported on the portal itself. You can do that by using the Command Line Interface, however, as was shown in this blog post. Basically, you can store the scripts in whichever source control system you want (the post uses Git, but it would work with TFS as well) and use the CLI to update your service whenever a new version of the script is checked in.
You can also vote up the source control feature suggestion on the UserVoice for the system, to have that functionality implemented in the service itself.
You can now link your Azure Mobile scripts to a git repo directly from the Azure Mobile Portal Dashboard, allowing you to edit scripts from VS2012 or another editor.