Power Platform Build Tools and Power Platform Giithub Actions support for generation of Deployment Settings file

[parvezghumra]

Power Platform Build Tools Version: 2.0.96
PAC CLI Version: 1.44.2

The PAC CLI provides a robust way to generate Deployment Settings files related to solutions to facilitate the automated resolution of Connection References and Environment Variables as part of a solution import operation.

However there is no native support currently to execute the same operation using the Power Platform Build Tools extension for Azure DevOps or Power Platform Github Actions. It would be great if this could be made available either as a standalone task/action and/or as optional switches on the Export Solution, Unpack Solution or Pack Solution operations. This would allow for a deployment settings file to be generated automatically by most ALM scenarios.

Currently this is only achievable by writing custom scripts to invoke the PAC CLI commands executed from an Azure DevOps pipeline or Github Action workflow.