Automating PowerBI Report Publishing from GitHub Repository to Workspace

[Likhi]

Currently we  maintain a GitHub repository containing all my PowerBI (.pbip) files.  whenever a modification is made to a PowerBI report in the desktop (.pbip file), we initiate a pull request to reflect the changes. This practice was implemented for version control purposes. However, one of the challenges we face is the need to manually publish the report to the workspace. Is there a method by which reports can be automatically published to the PowerBI workspace upon publishing to the GitHub repository? Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi, @Likhi 

You can use the Power BI Workspace deployment action available in GitHub Marketplace

Here are the steps to set it up:

Add environment variables to your GitHub repository to get the ID and key of the service principal. Pass these credentials to the action, as shown in the usage example available in GitHub Marketplace.Create a yaml configuration file and place it in the repository. The profile maps the folder name to the workspace ID.

You can refer to the following documents:

Power BI Workspace Deploy · Actions · GitHub Marketplace · GitHub

Once set up, it should automate the process of publishing PowerBI reports to the workspace whenever changes are pushed to the GitHub repository

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