Overview for configuring ALM for desktop flows

This article provides an overview for the tasks involved in how to set up a healthy application lifecycle management (ALM) strategy for your Power Automate desktop flows. For information about ALM in the Power Platform, go to Power Platform ALM resources.

Follow the list of tasks described in this article to set up your ALM strategy for cloud flows and desktop flows. To benefit from the latest features of desktop flows, we recommend following those steps in an environment with schema v2 activated.

Task	Description	More information
1. Set up your DevOps project	Create your Azure DevOps or GitHub repository	Continuous integration Create a project
2. Create and configure a service principal	How to create a Service Principal in Azure and link it to your environment as an Application User	Create a Service Principal Configure service connection using Service Principal
3. Create a solution with cloud flow, desktop flow and connection reference	Learn how to create and add your cloud flow, desktop flow and connection reference to your solution.	Create a solution and a publisher Add desktop flow, cloud flow and connection reference
4. Configure an ADO pipeline to export and commit into your repository	Learn how to set up your ADO pipeline to export and commit changes into your repository.	Build pipeline
5. Review your changes	Learn how to compare changes between two versions of your solution	Use Azure DevOps to see diff
6. Share a machine with a Service Principal and create a connection	Learn how to share a machine with a Service Principal and create a connection to the machine	Share a machine with a Service Principal and create a connection
7. Create a setting file and configure connection references	Learn how to create a setting file for your deployment and set the connection ID used by the connection reference.	Prepopulate connection references for automated deployment
8. Build and deploy	Learn how to build your application and deploy it	Build your solution Deploy your solution