Power Platform Pipelines delegated deployments, part 1 - application account

This video is demonstrating how to set up Power Platform Pipelines to benefit from using delegated deployments. In this video I am showing you how to use application account set up in Azure Entra ID.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro, what are PP Pipelines
4:29 Set up app in Azure
5:39 Set up app under S2S in PP Admin Center
7:33 Configure pipeline to use Delegated Deployment
9:04 Set pipeline stage owner as app owner (!!!)
11:00 Set up Power Automate process
12:01 Create connection using app for all unbound actions
16:04 Share pipeline with users that will use it (!!!)
17:12 Deployment using app account
22:10 Deployment details inside PP Pipelines app
23:50 Deployed solution in target environment
24:12 Wrap up!

[kannankarmegam-bne]

Hi Tomas, at 20:28 you mentioned about sharing user connection references with service principal. In this example, if jack researcher (user) deploys the solution the app deployed as service principal in PROD and I noticed in this case the flow connection references it uses deploying users connection reference and service principal is co-owner. The problem here is if the flow has an dataverse action "Add a new record" and when a record is created, the "created by" column it updates Jack Researcher which is wrong. I would expect it should be updated by the service principal. Bit confusing ?

[DanielWesterdale]

Great video! I am using pipelines atm . The process for locating missing depdencies is truly painful: for each failed deployment, go to PP Host, find run history record, then copy the validation error json into VS Code + format document. Next look for those missing depencies. If the solution you are trying to deploy shares dataverse tables with another solution, well this will be a higher order of magnitude in pain!

[nickthoman]

What environment does the approval workflow need to be in? I am assuming the same environment that Pipeline Orchestrator is deployed in or should it be the environment that you want the approval on?

[josephlim]

Hi Tomasz, does the PP Pipelines support/work for multi-geo or single tenant-multiple regions scenario? Does it require any special configuration or development? Thanks

[juansepowerplatform]

Great video thanks for your hard work. my question is can a service principal account own power apps or model driven apps. will this delegated approach work with apps?

[hash]

Thanks for sharing, great video your explanation is very clear ❤

[devizion]

I've tried out Power platform pipelines in my demo environment, and it is quite slick in how it is integrated, but i've got a hard time understanding MS when it comes to the licensing. We've got a lot of customer where this would be a good ALM solution, if it wasn't for the premium license requirements per user. As it is now, azure devops can do this (and alot more) for a fraction of the cost long term, so it is a hard sell for us.

[IvanUsma]

I was interested in the video but the text is too small to read, thanks

[jotpol]

poor sound quality. Buy a better microphone