You will need to have a basic understanding of the Microsoft Power Platform product family and fundamental knowledge of software development practices and the basics of IT application administration, support, and monitoring. Besides this theoretical knowledge, you will need to install the following software components to be able to execute the provided script snippets locally:

Please note that the scripts are created to run in cloud-hosted agents of Azure DevOps or GitHub and local execution is only intended for demonstration purposes.

To get the most out of the book, you will need to have Power Platform developer licenses, an Azure DevOps or GitHub organization (free plans available for public repositories are sufficient), and a Microsoft Azure tenant. A Microsoft Azure subscription is not required because we will use only Microsoft Entra ID features to connect the Power Platform world with our preferred DevOps tool. Of course, if your organization has enterprise tiers of these online services, the experience with the examples will be even more smooth and straightforward.

There are many examples in the book that have been created for both Azure DevOps Services and GitHub. The concepts stated in those chapters are the same beyond these DevOps tools and the scripts can be easily moved between these platforms. We highly recommend creating your workflows in the DevOps tool on your own flavor, so go either with Azure DevOps or GitHub for the samples in the book.

In Chapter 7, it is recommended to have the GitHub Advanced Security add-on for GitHub or Azure DevOps Services. Although the CodeQL commands can be locally executed, the advanced security features of Azure DevOps and GitHub are only available with public projects and, respectively, with public repositories as well.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access and fork the code via the GitHub repository (link available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

You can place the real-world example in Chapter 8 in a separate repository to introduce everything that you will learn over the course of the book in the same solution. With that, you will have an end-to-end, production-ready DevSecOps reference implementation for your organization.

Download the example code files

You can download the example code files for this book from GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-DevOps-on-Microsoft-Power-Platform. In case there’s an update to the code, it will be updated in the existing GitHub repository.

We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!