Application lifecycle management for Power BI
As we already learned in this chapter, Power BI components cannot be included in Power Platform solution packages. Moreover, the Power BI development tools do not provide integration with ALM tools like Azure DevOps yet. The consequence is that there is no possibility to automatically check dependencies between Power BI solution components and the other parts of a Power Platform solution.
So, generally speaking, keeping a strict ALM approach for Power BI is quite challenging. There are, however, certain possibilities to implement an ALM approach explained in the following sections.
Understanding environments in Power BI
Power BI is not related to the Power Platform environments by any means, so that a staging cascade for developing, testing, and deploying Power BI components must be implemented in a different way. It is recommended to use the concept of Power BI workspaces for this purpose, as illustrated in the following diagram...