Understanding Power Platform Environments and Solutions

Now that we have learned about the Power Platform products, as well as Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) and DevOps approaches, in the previous chapters, it is time to explore the fundamental building blocks of successful ALM by introducing the concepts of environments and solutions. We will start by explaining what constitutes a solution in the Power Platform and then discuss Dataverse and data modeling within this framework. We will also cover the versioning of solutions and packages in the platform to understand how to manage different versions of solutions. We will learn about the concepts of Managed Environments and managed pipelines, and we will also discover how we can use them to automate and streamline the software development process. We will conclude this section with a step-by-step guide on our first Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline in the Power Platform, giving us a practical...