Streamlining Power Platform Development with DevOps Tooling

In the previous chapter, we created our first Power Platform pipeline using a service principal to deploy our solution from one environment to another. This chapter covers the pro-dev DevOps tools that can help us streamline our development process in Power Platform. The first tool is Git, a distributed version control system that is widely used around the world. We will learn about Git repositories, commonly used Git CLI commands such as clone, push, pull, checkout, and more. We will also explore how we can manage Power Platform solution plain files and folders in a Git repository and how pull requests and merges are performed even from command lines. We then learn about how Power Platform pipelines can be connected to these Git repos. We will spend some time on Power Platform CLI (PAC CLI), which allows us to interact with Power Platform solutions in any script language. We will also learn how to create Azure DevOps Services...