PowerBI CICD with Azure DevOps (Setting up the tenant) (2/3)

September 15, 2022

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Now, we need to enable the service to use PowerBI API

  1. Go to Settings
  2. Click to Admin portal
  3. Go for Tenant settings
  4. Then in the Developer settings part Allow service principal to use PowerBI API
Figure 5 Setting up tenant

Grant access to workspace

Now, we need to add the service as admin to the workspace

  1. Go to Workspace
  2. Click on the three dots and Workspace access
  3. Add the PowerBI service connection and give him Admin role
  4. Finally click on Add
Figure 6 Grant access to workspace

Adding the service as gateway owner

To be able to use the tenant create in the Azure Active Directory we need to add the service as owner of the gateway

Add the extension to Azure DevOps

As we explain before, this work is based on an extension. We need to add it to Azure DevOps.

  1. On the top right corner click on the and then Browse marketplace
  2. Search for PowerBI actions
  3. Click on Get it free
  4. Select your organization and download the extension

Creation of the service connection in Azure DevOps

To be able to use the tenant created in the Azure Active Directory we need to create a service connection in Azure DevOps

  1. Go for your organization settings and click on Service Connection
  2. Create a service connection by searching Power BI Service Connection
  3. Select Service Principal and then fill Tenant ID and Client ID with the credentials that you copied beforehand. If not, you can find it in the Azure Active Directory under the app registration menu
Figure 7 Add service connections

Now that we have set up every tool, we can create the release pipeline.

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PowerBI CICD with Azure DevOps (Introduction & Implementation) (1/3)

September 14, 2022

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Introduction

The purpose of this document is to explain how to implement PowerBI CICD in Azure DevOps. This document is for those who are tired of publishing reports by hand on different environments.

To implement the solution, we used the “Power BI actions” extension which you can find here.

This document will walk you through the steps we took to implement the solution.

The extension

The PowerBI Actions extension is based on the PowerBI API created by Microsoft that you can find here. The extension allows you to automate several tasks such as Upload / Import a PowerBI dashboard, create a workspace, update a report connection…To perform these tasks, the extension must work with a connection to the PowerBI service connection.

Implementation

To perform the following steps, you must have sufficient authorization. If you do not have sufficient authorization, you may need to contact someone who does.

Creation of the PowerBI service connection

  1. Sign in to Azure Portal
  2. Select Azure Active Directory and then App Registration
  3. Click on New Registration
Figure 1 Creation of PowerBI service connection first step
Figure 2 Creation of PowerBI service connection second step

On the next page, copy the application IDs for further use.

Then we need to create a client secret:

  1. Go to certificates & secrets
  2. Click on New client secret
  3. Add a description
  4. Click on Add
Figure 3 Creation of client secrets

Now, we need to give some permission to the app

  1. Go to App permission
  2. Click to Add permission
  3. Go for PowerBI Service
  4. Select Application permissions
  5. Check Tenant.Read.All and Tenant.ReadWrite.All
  6. Click on Add Permission
Figure 4 Add permissions

Now the app as been created and it’s ready to be used in PowerBI

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PowerBI CICD with Azure DevOps (Creation of the release pipeline) (3/3)

September 14, 2022

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For this part, we assume that you already have a pipeline for power BI. Moreover, the solution presented here fit our project, it may be that you need to add or modify some steps.

Deployment in DEV

Firstly, we need to add the Power BI Action task.

  1. Click on the + sign
  2. Search for Power BI Actions
  3. Add the task
Figure 8 Add a task
  1. Add the service connection
  2. Select the action Upload Power BI Report
  3. Add the name of the workspace
  4. Give the path of the folder where your reports are stored. Be careful, your report name can not contain a dot.
  5. Check Overwrite Power BI File
Figure 9 Power BI Action: Publish

Deployment in UAT

For deploying reports in UAT we use the same system, but we must add more steps because reports are published with the DEV dataset. We must therefore change it to the associated dataset.

The first task is another Power BI Action: Publish   the configuration is identical as the one for DEV, we just change the Workspace name to UAT.

The second task give the ownership of all datasets to the service connection.

  1. Selection the task Take dataset ownership
  2. Add the name of the workspace
  3. Check Update all datasets in workspace the dataset name will be ignored
Figure 10 Power BI Action: Take ownership

Then, we need to update the gateway.

  1. Selection the task Update gateway
  2. Add the name of the workspace
  3. Fill in the name of your dataset and of the getaway. We cannot check the Update all  option because the metrics report will make the job fail
Figure 11 Power BI Action: UpdateGateway

Then, we need to update the datasource.

  1. Selection the task Update datasource connection
  2. Fill in the name of the dataset
  3. Choose the Datasource type
  4. Fill the information with the one that’s fit your project
Then, we need to update the datasource.

Figure 13 Power BI Action: UpdateDatasource

The last two task must be replicate for all you report since we can’t use the Update all option.

Deployment in PROD

This part is the same as the UAT one, we just needed to change the name of the workspace and the name of the new database everywhere they appear in different steps.

Report development

Now, when you develop a report make sure to push it to your repository with the Data source settings setup with the DEV data source

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