Pipelines in Power Platform
Let’s start with pipelines in Power Platform. The goal of pipelines in Power Platform is to democratize ALM in Power Platform and Dynamics 365. This is accomplished by giving ALM automation capabilities directly to platform makers. With that, it becomes more accessible and approachable for makers, administrators, and developers.
Before pipelines in Power Platform were introduced, adopting a healthy, automated ALM process for a project required a lot of domain knowledge and effort.
With pipelines in Power Platform, the following can happen:
- Admins can easily configure deployment pipelines
- Makers can use those pipelines in a UI experience they are used to
- Professional developers can extend those pipelines, as well as trigger them through the CLI
The capabilities provided by pipelines in Power Platform are similar to what we have with manual exporting and importing to move solutions to downstream environments. This is in...