Brief discussion on the implementation framework of enterprise power Bi CI /cd

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In the enterprise scenario ,BI Reports are more of an item IT service , It is not just a report tool . Empathy , As I have stated many times before ,Power BI It's a set of services , And not just Power BI Desktop, Its development , Testing and deployment , Need to be effectively managed . thus , Whether it's based on compliance , Or the efficiency of cooperation , Enterprise implementation PBI Continuous integration and deployment , There's no harm in Baili .

However , At present, large and small enterprises at home and abroad , Has been successfully implemented PBI CI/CD There are not many cases , Although I can't fully understand what they do , But based on my own experience and understanding , I put forward two implementation ideas , For reader's reference .

Below I will help readers understand this idea through flow charts and some screenshots , But the specific technical operation here will not STEP-BY-STEP, Because there are documents on the official website , I can easily find it out by myself , And some of the things I've talked about in my previous blog , There is no need to repeat here .

programme A

These two solutions are not just theories , They are feasible in the actual technical implementation . The first one is （Plan A） It's the one I personally recommend , It USES OneDrive for business Do version control , use Power Automate Do continuous deployment , As follows ：

This solution is applicable to small and medium-sized organizations with a single development team , It is also a large enterprise with multiple development teams , It's all applicable . For the part of continuous integration , The approach is to create a shared for the development team OneDrive, In the OneDrive You can create different folder For different PBI The project team uses , And configure it for DEV Work area of the environment ：

In this mode , Developers do not need to deploy reports to the workspace , Just upload it to OneDrive that will do , The benefits are as follows ：

1. Use OneDrive trusteeship DEV In the environment PBI Report file , Any version changes are synchronized with this workspace

2. advantageous to PBI Management of the development team , Division of labor , And version collaboration

3. make the best of OneDrive It has the function of version fallback , Make it easy PBI Document version control

Besides , What readers don't have to worry about is , In this mode PBI The connection and refresh between the dataset and the data source are not affected , Besides , Because we only need to DEV Workspace configuration OneDrive, Therefore, it will be released to UAT Or after the production environment ,OneDrive Any version changes in will only affect DEV Environmental Science , Does not affect the UAT And production .

Part of continuous deployment , We can just take advantage of Power Automate Of OneDrive or Sharepoint The trigger of , such , We can implement whenever a new version is uploaded to OneDrive after , Automatically trigger subsequent workflows ：

So in the subsequent part of the workflow , We can call PBI REST API Yes Power BI Content to operate , For example, implement the deployment and refresh the corresponding data set ：

notes ： About using Power Automate call Power BI REST API, Please refer to this article

• https://d-bi.gitee.io/pbi-rest-api-supplement/

programme B

Plan B Relatively speaking, it is a little troublesome , It USES GitHub or Bitbucket And other similar platforms ( Below to GitHub Substitute for ) As PBI File hosting platform and version management tools , While using Azure DevOps or Jenkins This special CI/CD Tools （ Below to DevOps Platform collectively ） Make continuous deployment . As follows ：

In this mode , Developers will PBI file Push To GitHub, And in DevOps The platform establishes the pipeline and runs the specific deployment code to realize CI/CD, Its advantages are as follows ：

1. Be able to use DevOps Platform rich CI/CD function

2. Be able to work with other types of development projects in the same enterprise CI/CD Management under the system

3. Be able to cooperate with other types of enterprises CI/CD project （ For example, some ETL project ） To integrate

But compared with Plan A The deficiency lies in the fact that GitHub Cannot be directly configured to Power BI work area , Can't be like the plan A Like that with DEV Real time environment synchronization , Therefore, an additional one is deployed to DEV Link ; On the other hand, the implementation of the scheme is a little more troublesome . Here's how I use Jenkins Implementation scheme B Screenshot of successful deployment of （ I am using Jenkins It really took a little trouble in the process of testing , But the specific steps are beyond the scope of this article , If you have the opportunity to file another complaint ）.

by comparison , Use Azure DevOps The deployment process is much smoother . The figure below T1 and T2 I use two different methods to realize Power BI Success record of automatic deployment , On the ground , Whenever a developer puts a new version of PBIX File push to GitHub, be DevOps The pipe is automatically triggered , take PBIX Automatic deployment to PBI Workspace and complete data refresh .

total junction

Usually , I prefer the scheme A The pattern of , It's convenient , concise , Efficient , Easier to manage . But if PBI The integration and deployment of the need to comply with the unified deployment specification under the enterprise framework , Or need to work with ETL And other projects , So the plan B Maybe the only choice . Besides ,IT When the team actually implements this plan , There are still many aspects to consider , For example, error reporting , Version rollback , The dependency and deployment order between data sets and data flows , And this article aims to throw a brick to attract jade , The specific plan must be adjusted and improved by the team according to the actual situation .

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