Managing the Environment Life Cycle with Design Best Practices

Every organization should prioritize building resilient solutions on top of governed and secure environments when developing any kind of business application. Implementing DevOps in an uncontrolled and ungoverned environment can lead to non-compliant and inconsistent processes that can affect the efficiency and reliability of the application workloads. Ungoverned environments are more prone to vulnerabilities, even if the potential harm is done inadvertently by internal employees.

This chapter focuses on exploring proven best practices and guidelines that can help organizations build environments that foster responsible innovation while ensuring compliance and security. We will look into different design principles that touch areas of governance, compliance, security, and automation and look for ways how to automatically configure Power Platform environments to make them less prone to misconfigurations.

We will look...