Microsoft Power Platform Build Tools for Azure DevOps Part 2

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:

1. Artifacts, in our case is going to be our Git environment where we are storing our unpacked solution

2. Stages, deployment to various environments we can create subsequent stages if one follows the other

   1. Pre-deployment conditions

   2. Post-deployment conditions

Artifacts

1. Project:- Select your Project

2. Source(repository):- your repository

3. Default branch:- your branch

4. Default version:- latest from the default branch

Add Job to Stage

Click on Deploy to Test and create the following

1. PowerShell to read Solution Name

2. Install “Power Platform Tools Installer”

3. Power Platform Pack Solution

4. Power Platform Import Solution

This Portion is pretty much straight forward we have defined these steps in Part 1