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Setting Up CI/CD Pipelines for Power Platform Application Using Service Principal and SSL Certificate

Currently setting up ci/cd pipelines a power platform application. Would like to connect to power platform to perform the various task using service principal and SSL certificate (NOT client secret). Is there a way to achieve this (i.e., custom connector)? Currently the Power Platform connector only allows for client secret.

use connector using SSL Cert

Solution

  • If you are using the Power Platform tasks from the extension: Power Platform Build Tools (2.0.49), the Power Platform Service Connection doesn't support using service principal and SSL certificate.

    It only supports using service principal and Client Secret for the time being.

    For example:

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    I am afraid that there is no method can use service principal and SSL certificate to create service connection, then use it in the Power Platform tasks from the extension.

    I can fully understand your requirement. You can report the feature in this site: Platform Tool feedback

    For a workaround, you can change to use the PAC CLI to use service principal and SSL certificate for authentication.

    For example:

    pac auth create --name MyOrg-SPN --applicationId 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 --certificateDiskPath xxx  --certificatePassword xxx --tenant 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

    In this case, the authentication completed by command cannot be passed to the Power Platform task.

    So the subsequent operations also need to be completed using the PAC CLI.