Migrating a Power Automate Flow to an Azure Logic App

Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow) and Azure Logic Apps solve similar problems. You can use either one to create a workflow hosted in the cloud. However, Logic Apps tend to be more powerful. If you create a Power Automate flow, you may eventually run into its limitations and wish to recreate the same workflow in Logic Apps.

Fortunately, this can be done in just a few steps.

Navigate to https://flow.microsoft.com, sign in and select the flow you wish to migrate under "My Flows". The details of the flow displays, as shown in Fig. 1.

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From the top toolbar, select Export | Logic Apps template (.json), as shown in Fig. 2.

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A JSON file will be created and automatically downloaded. Fig 3 shows a section of this file.

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Navigate to the Azure Portal (https://portal.azure.com) and login. Click the [Create a Resource] button (Fig. 4) and search for "Template deployment (deploy using custom templates), as shown in Fig. 5.

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Select "Template deployment" to display the info page for this service shown in Fig. 6.

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Click the [Create] button to display the "Custom deployment" start page, as shown in Fig. 7.

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Click "Build your own template in the editor" to display the template editor, as shown in Fig. 8.

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Click the [Load file] button (Fig. 9); then navigate to and select the JSON file you exported above.

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The exported JSON displays, as shown in Fig. 10.

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Click the [Save] button to open the "Custom deployment" dialog with settings from the JSON file, as shown in Fig. 11.

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Fill in the desired Resource Group and Logic App name, check the "I agree" checkbox, and click the [Purchase] button to create the Logic App.

After a few seconds, your logic app will be available. At this time, you can open it and change any settings you wish, as shown in Fig. 12.

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It may be necessary to authenticate against any API connectors, so check these before testing your Logic App.

In this article, you learned how to export a Power Automate flow and import it into an Azure Logic App.