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Dynamics 365 CE CI/CD Advice

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Posted on by Ivan Ficko 1,380

We are in process of implementing CI/CD in our company and we need some advice regarding the process. Our company is working on custom D365 CE projects (we don't do products) and we usually have 2 instances (development/test and production) per project. I have a few questions regarding this subject.


1. Which git branching strategy do you use in this kind of projects?
2. Do you prefer to work with one monolithic solution or few smaller solutions?
3. How do you handle critical bugfixes on production?

Any other advice other than answers on this questions is also welcome. Maybe someone can share a bigger picture of the process that is used in his organization and I think that it should be the best way to share the info. I know that sharing an experience can be a pain to write down, but I hope that someone will have time to write some advice.

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  • Dharanidharan Profile Picture
    Dharanidharan 390 User Group Leader on at
    RE: Dynamics 365 CE CI/CD Advice

    1. Which git branching strategy do you use in this kind of projects? - Feature Branch-> Release-> Master.

    Feature branch- Developers will create feature branch per user story and commit their changes into it. After code analysis, the code should get merged into the release branch. After successful completion of solution package the code should get merged into master(main) branch and upcoming sprint release branches.

    2. Do you prefer to work with one monolithic solution or few smaller solutions? - Smaller solution. my suggestion is create solution per sprint.

    3. How do you handle critical bugfixes on production? - create hotfix branch from main/master branch and push the critical bugs in production environment.

  • Dharanidharan Profile Picture
    Dharanidharan 390 User Group Leader on at
    RE: Dynamics 365 CE CI/CD Advice

    1. Which git branching strategy do you use in this kind of projects? -Feature branch for each sprints and that should be merged into release and main branch after release

    2. Do you prefer to work with one monolithic solution or few smaller solutions? - Smaller solutions. you can have separate solutions for each and every sprint release

    3. How do you handle critical bugfixes on production? - for the critical bug fixes we can create hotfix branch from the master branch and move it to production.

  • Arun Vinoth Profile Picture
    Arun Vinoth 11,615 on at
    RE: Dynamics 365 CE CI/CD Advice

    1. TFS/VSTS. Main trunk & branch for sprints which can be merged after release. Also hotfox branch can be done from Main trunk when Prod bugs are identified

    2. Big epics can have a dedicated solution, then patches, small sprint unmanaged solutions for further enhancements

    3. Refer 1

  • Adrian Begovich Profile Picture
    Adrian Begovich 1,019 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    RE: Dynamics 365 CE CI/CD Advice

    Hi Ivan Ficko,

    I'll try and answer your questions.

    1. TFS/VSTS.
    2. You already have a monolithic solution called the Default Solution. I use minimalistic unmanaged solutions to contain changes.
    3. I prioritise critical bugs and fix them.

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