Michael Ghebremedin Dynamics 365 Notes

  Microsoft Power Platform Build Tools for Azure DevOps Part 2 Create a Release to Import your solution to various environments This is part II of Microsoft Power Platform Build Tool for Azure DevOps, in this article we are going to focus on how to create a release to deploy our solutions stored in our repository to various environments. Create a new release Click “ Empty Job ” Name your Stage “ Deploy To Test ” you can name your stage anything it suits you, based on your naming standards Here you have to assign the Stage Owner as well. In the following steps we are going to define: Artifacts , in our case is going to be our Git environment where we are storing our unpacked solution Stages , deployment to various environments we can create subsequent stages if one follows the other Pre-deployment conditions Post-deployment conditions Artifacts Project:- Select your Project Source(repository):- your repository

  I am going to write two articles 1 st one will be how to use DevOps Pipeline to Export your solution and add it to Code Repository 2 nd one will be how to Create a Release to Import your solution to various environments As a per-requisite for this article its a good idea to familiarize yourself the various parts of DevOps, you will have a more successful implementation if you have a good knowledge of what DevOps: Repos Pipeline Pipeline Environments Releases Library Task groups Deployment groups </> XAML are. For this article we are going to focus more on how to Create a Pipeline, being familiar with PowerShell Script will be helpful as well. The following documentation from Microsoft is a good reference https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/devops-build-tools To start with Create a Folder under your Repository, in my case I called the folder “D365_Solutions” New Pipeline Select “Use the classic editor