Environments, managed environments, and environment strategy

Environments are containers of our apps, flows, connections, and other components along with security and data access management capabilities. To draw an analogy from the cloud world, we can look at environments such as Microsoft Azure subscriptions, which act as logical containers capable of hosting one or more applications. Perhaps the term workload is more appropriate here, as our Power Platform applications can include Power Apps, Flows, custom Copilots, Power Pages websites, and more. It is highly recommended to use solutions to deploy workloads to environments.

Microsoft Power Platform tenants can have thousands of environments. Microsoft Entra ID is the glue that provides security controls, governance, and guardrails that surround every product in Power Platform. As mentioned earlier, Power Platform runs on top of Microsoft Azure. Environments are the key concept for isolation and to define system boundaries in...