Solution Pipelines in Power Platform

Overview

Pipelines in Power Platform allow you to deploy solutions and configuration settings to target environments. These pipelines handle not only the solution components but also environment-specific details like connections, connection references, and environment variables. Here are some key points about solution pipelines:

1. Deployment Scope: Pipelines can deploy any Power Platform customization contained within your solution. However, they do not include data stored within Dataverse tables.

2. Environment Requirements: To create a pipeline, you need at least two environments: a source environment (usually your development environment) and a target environment where you want to deploy your solution. Both environments must have a Microsoft Dataverse database.

3. Managed Environments: The target environments used in a pipeline must be enabled as Managed Environments.

4. Limitations:

   • Personal pipelines can’t be extended.
   • Only two environments (source and target) can be configured for a personal pipeline.
   • Personal pipelines can’t be shared with other users.

Setting Up Pipelines

1. Navigate to your Solution/Pipelines
   
2. Create pipeline
   
   
   
   
   
3. Define Name of your pipeline and Description
   
   
   
   
   
4. Once the pipeline has been created, select from dropdown
   
   
   
   
   
5. Deploy
   
   
   
   
   
6. Here you can pick 
1. Now for immediate deployment 
2. Later for scheduled deployment
7. Here it will validate the solution with the target environment, if there are any dependencies they will be displayed here 
8. Once validation has been completed the pipeline will analize the solution components and generate Deployment Notes
   
   
   
   
   
9. Once you click Deploy, the pipeline will deploy the solution to the target environment
10. The Pipeline is rich with information, its worth the time to open the record and look around you might find valuable information and analytics