Mastering DevOps on Microsoft Power Platform: Build, deploy, and secure your low-code solutions on Power Platform using Azure DevOps and GitHub

Learn from Microsoft Power Platform experts how to leverage GitHub, Azure DevOps, and GenAI tools like Microsoft Copilots to develop and deliver secure, enterprise-scale solutions

Key Features

• Customize Power Platform for secure large-scale deployments with the help of DevSecOps practices
• Implement code-first fusion projects with ALM and infuse AI in Power Platform using copilots and ChatOps
• Get hands-on experience through real-world examples using Azure DevOps and GitHub
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

Mastering DevOps on Microsoft Power Platform is your guide to revolutionizing business-critical solution development. Written by two Microsoft Technology Specialists with extensive experience in enterprise-scale Power Platform implementations and DevOps practices, this book teaches you how to design, build, and secure efficient DevOps processes by adapting custom software development practices to the Power Platform toolset, dramatically reducing time, cost, and errors in app modernization and quality assurance.

The book introduces application life cycle management (ALM) and DevOps-enabled architecture, design patterns, and CI/CD practices, showing you why companies adopt DevOps with Power Platform. You'll master environment and solution management using Dataverse, Git, the Power Platform CLI, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Copilot.

Implementing the shift-left approach in DevSecOps using GitHub Advanced Security features, you’ll create a Power Platform tenant governed by controls, automated tests, and backlog management. You’ll also discover advanced concepts, such as fusion architecture, pro-dev extensibility, and AI-infused applications, along with tips to avoid common pitfalls.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build CI/CD pipelines from development to production, enhancing the life cycle of your business solutions on Power Platform.

What you will learn

• Gain insights into ALM and DevOps on Microsoft Power Platform
• Set up Power Platform pipelines and environments by leveraging best practices
• Automate, test, monitor, and secure CI/CD pipelines using DevSecOps tools, such as VS Code and GitHub Advanced Security, on Power Platform
• Enable pro-developer extensibility using fusion development to integrate Azure and Power Platform
• Provision enterprise landing zones and build well-architected workloads
• Discover GenAI capabilities in Power Platform and support ChatOps with the copilot stack

Who this book is for

If you are a DevOps engineer, cloud architect, site reliability engineer, solutions architect, software developer, or low-code engineer looking to master end-to-end DevSecOps implementation on Microsoft Power Platform from basic to advanced levels, this book is for you. Prior knowledge of software development processes and tools is necessary. A basic understanding of Power Platform and DevOps processes will also be beneficial.

Table of Contents

1. Mastering DevOps and ALM for Efficient Software Development
2. Getting Started with Microsoft Power Platform
3. Exploring ALM and DevOps in Microsoft Power Platform
4. Understanding Power Platform Environments and Solutions
5. Streamlining Power Platform Development with DevOps Tooling
6. A Deep Dive into Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Pipelines
7. An Overview of DevSecOps in Power Platform
8. Demonstrating ALM and DevOps Implementation
9. Implementing the Fusion Development Approach
10. Enabling Pro-Dev Extensibility in Power Platform

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Uroš Kastelic is a technology specialist in low-code/no-code at Microsoft, where he helps large enterprise customers implement and adopt Microsoft Power Platform. He holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in computer and information science. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked as a software developer on various projects. He joined Microsoft in 2014 and has worked in different roles. For the last five years, he has been helping organizations with their application modernization projects and the implementation of DevOps practices, supported by Microsoft Azure services. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and an Expert with many certifications in Microsoft Azure and Power Platform technology, as well as being actively engaged in various tech communities.

József Zoltán Vadkerti is a senior technology specialist at Microsoft with a computer science (MSC) degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He has almost 20 years of experience in software development. Since 2015, he has been working in different roles for Microsoft, with a focus on application development and innovation. He has deep technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure, cloud-native architecture, serverless, DevOps practices, applied AI, and Microsoft Platform. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP®), Microsoft Certified Trainer, Azure Solution Architect Expert, and DevOps Engineer Expert. Today, he is one of the most experienced Power Platform professionals at Microsoft in the CEE and MEA region. József currently resides in Budapest with his wife and three boys.