Introducing Azure DevOps for the Power Platform
Azure DevOps is a Microsoft ALM solution for general-purpose software development as presented in the previous chapter. With the Power Platform Build Tools, Azure DevOps evolved into a mature tool for Power Platform solution development purposes as well.
Before Microsoft published Power Platform Build Tools, there were some community tools for Dynamics 365 available in the Visual Studio Marketplace, which could also be considered since they have broad Dynamics 365 related capabilities.
In this section, we will present the capabilities of Power Platform Build Tools and the typical use cases in a Power Platform solution development.
Getting an overview of Power Platform Build Tools
Power Platform Build Tools is a collection of pipeline tasks. It is divided into four groups: helper tasks, quality check tasks, solution tasks, and environment tasks. We will discuss these groups in the subsequent sections.
