ALM Accelerator
The second tool we will look at is the ALM Accelerator for Power Platform. It is a canvas app that is intended to provide a simplified interface on top of Azure DevOps Pipelines and Git source control in Azure DevOps. It is aimed at both low-code developers and code-first developers.
The ALM Accelerator relies on several different parts. It only works in combination with Azure DevOps, where it needs projects to store the template pipelines it ships, run the pipelines, and store solution artifacts and everything needed for a healthy ALM process.
It also contains the Dataverse solution, which needs to be installed in a host environment. The solution contains one Model-Driven App (MDA), as well as a canvas app. The MDA is the admin app where one can configure everything that is needed. The canvas app is the one the developer uses to deploy their solutions.
To set up the ALM Accelerator, one needs a lot of permissions in Azure DevOps, Microsoft Entra ID, and the...