Introducing solutions management

Solutions management in the Power Platform is a natural evolution of the former customization file (XML file) approach, which was used in early versions of Dynamics CRM for transporting a customization from one Dynamics CRM instance into another.

Solution management requires a CDS database to be created in the Power Platform environment. In environments without the CDS, this capability is not available.

In the next sections, you will learn a lot of details about the Power Platform solution's management capability.

Getting an overview of solutions

In the Power Platform, the solution is the key vehicle for supporting ALM. From the ALM point of view, the solution package is a container for distributing solutions between environments.

Technically, a solution package is a ZIP file consisting of a structure of folders and files, containing all solution artifacts.

In the past, the solution package contained only the solution components...