Power BI Dev Camp: Oct. 28th 11a PST | Learn ALM in Power BI with Deployment Pipelines

[TedPattison]

The October Power BI Dev Camp session titled ALM in Power BI with Deployment Pipelines will teach campers how to use deployment pipelines for managing the application lifecycle of datasets and reports and for enabling CI/CD in a Power BI environment. The session explains how deployment pipelines are configured to create dedicated workspaces for developing and testing Power BI artifacts including datasets, reports, dashboards and dataflows. The session will demonstrate how to deploy artifacts in a deployment pipeline from the Dev workspace to the Testing workspace and then to the Production workspace where updates are made available to all users. Along the way, campers will learn how to configure data source rules, to automate pipelines deployment using PowerShell and the Power BI REST API and to integrate deployment pipelines together with Azure DevOps pipelines.

Camper Learning Points

• Learn how to create and configure deployment pipelines
• Learn how to configure pipeline permissions
• Learn how to create data source rules to update database connection strings
• Learn what aspects of pipelines can be automated through Power BI APIs and PowerShell
• Learn how to integrate Deployment Pipelines with Azure DevOps Pipelines

Prerequisites: Campers should have prior experience with publishing and configuring datasets and reports in a Power BI environment.

Date: Thursday, October 28
Time: 2:00 PM EST / 11:00 AM PST
Attendee Link: https://aka.ms/PowerBIDevCamp10282021

[laurentiud]

I think this is great!

However, I believe Microsoft should finally understand that we need proper developer access to the underlying components of a pbix/pbit file to be able to source control all things properly, go through a formal pull request review process etc.

Splitting the tabular model and tracked as a bim model file is fine and achievable using Tabular Editor, but understanding what changed to an actual report from a visual perspective and anything else not tabular model related is not.

This means actual collaboration within a team is very much hard to attain unless bigger teams are fine to only do it over a model file. It also means that so called "production hotfixes" are close to impossible to manage properly given that you cannot actually understand what is different in the "production report" to the "development/internal testing report", unless you want to focus on merging the changes to the model using ALM toolkit and finally analyzing things visually to understand other changes (very far from being something that should even be used).

It's hard to understand why this idea (https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=9daf5a6b-19e1-4b79-9e7c-78d877d54542) still needs votes, given that other ideas with a smaller vote pool are already under review or already planned:
- https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=4657bb93-bb25-48c2-9304-26bfd8def58c 
- https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=d552779c-7f1e-4259-a7a5-dae7c2b0877e
- https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=6ec9d2cf-bb81-4e18-8dc1-a6a15f5c6b96