[FEATURE] PnP commands to publish a SPO site template to the tenant

[rachoksh]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Problem is currently there is no way to publish a custom SPO modern template to the tenant.

I am looking for a way to use the .pnp package from the below command and use that to publish a custom SPO site template to the Tenant that appears under the "From your Organization" in the UI for end users to be able to choose an Organization template and apply. This would include lists, libraries, navigation, site logo as well as client-side custom pages.

Get-PnPSiteTemplate -out template.pnp -IncludeAllClientSidePages -PersistBrandingFiles

Describe the solution you'd like
Solution could be something like below two commands -

Import-PnPTenantTemplate -Path ./template.pnp
&
Publish-PnPTenantTemplate -Identity "Template Name" -Scope Organization

Describe alternatives you've considered
Current solution is for Admins to use this - Invoke-PnPSiteTemplate .\template.pnp.
End users cannot do this as they don't know PnP PS.

Publishing to the tenant allows end users to pick from any of the published organization templates in SPO.

[veronicageek]

@rachoksh - Are Site scripts & Site designs not what you're after?

[gautamdsheth]

@rachoksh - what you are looking is site templates and scripts.

You can read more about it here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/declarative-customization/get-started-create-site-design

You can call PnP Provisioning from the site scripts. The provisioning needs to be run on a separate hosted environment or server. You can consider Az function or runbooks or something else.