Integrating your deployment cycles with Octopus Deploy
When releasing a large enterprise application deployment, orchestration and automation are very important. Given that modern deployment tools accept PowerShell scripting and Dynamics 365's ability to be deployed using PowerShell scripts, the platform becomes a good candidate for deployment automation.
In this recipe, we will leverage what we've learned in previous recipes on PowerShell deployments and integrate the capabilities with a deployment tool. More specifically, we will be using Octopus Deploy to promote a solution to an instance of Dynamics 365.
Getting ready
To get started, you need to set up Octopus Deploy and address some of the Dynamics 365 prerequisites.
Octopus Deploy
Given that this recipe relies on Octopus Deploy, we will need an accessible instance with enough privileges to create and configure a deployment project. For details on how to install Octopus Deploy, follow the steps in https://octopus.com/docs/installation. The...
