Azure devops - Board, Repo, Pipeline connected with D365FO

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Hi team,

I do some research on Azure devops, and found Boards, Repos, Pipeline are the important features which required for D365FO.

I would like to know how these (Azure devops )are sync with D365FO?

Boards

Repos

Pipeline.

Kindly elaborate each , so that I will understand the concept.

Pls advise, thanks

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Anton Venter 21,003 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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@CU10121822-0
I see another post from you with almost the same title and @Martin Dráb has already given some answers there.

Nonetheless, I will give high level F&O related answers your specific questions here. There's a lot of information about this online.
- Boards → used for tracking work items of team members.
- Repos → where the F&O custom source code (or ISV binaries) is securely stored.
- Pipelines → used to build the F&O deployable package (from the repo where the source code is located) and to deploy it to the UAT and Test environments.

The other post:
VS connect with Azure devOps in D365FO
https://community.dynamics.com/forums/thread/details/?threadid=cf8efa84-4f8c-f111-ab0f-7c1e52017bfb

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Rahul T 31 on at

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Hi @CU10121822-0,

Azure DevOps is an all-in-one platform where software teams can plan their work, manage code, track progress, test applications, and release updates efficiently.
How Azure DevOps Works with D365 Finance & Operations
Azure DevOps helps manage the entire development process for D365FO—from planning changes to deploying them into different environments.
Azure Boards: Used to plan and track work. Developers and consultants create tasks, bugs, and feature requests and monitor their progress.
Azure Repos: Stores the D365FO source code (X++). Developers check in their code changes, making it easy to track who changed what and when.
Azure Pipelines (Build): Automatically compiles the code, validates it, and creates a deployable package whenever new code is checked in.
Azure Pipelines (Release): Deploys the package to D365FO environments (such as UAT or Production) through Lifecycle Services (LCS), reducing manual effort and deployment errors.
In simple terms: Azure DevOps acts as the central hub where teams plan work, manage code, build applications, and deploy changes to D365FO in a controlled and automated way.

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Martin Dráb 240,256 Most Valuable Professional on at

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I recommend checking Azure DevOps documentation. There is a page called What is Azure DevOps?, which contains an overview of the components with examples. I think it's exactly what you're looking for. It's not anything specific to F&O.

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CU10121822-0 652 on at

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Thanks Rahul for the response.
So, I beleive from VS - Manage connections , we can connect with Azure DevOps .
Here I have one question
If we configured, CI/CD pipeline then only it will automated else we have to do manually deployment. If I am not wrong.
Pls who will basically responsible to configure CI/CD pipeline in Azure devops? Is it Azure devops guys or D365FO guys.
Pls advise, thanks

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Martin Dráb 240,256 Most Valuable Professional on at

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You need to use pipelines to get the build and deployment automated, otherwise you need to do it manually (which would be a bad idea).
But you don't necessary have to use CI/CD, i.e. continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD).

Usually, pipelines are managed by teams that use them, in this case by F&O people.

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Sorry, not understood

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Martin Dráb 240,256 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Sorry, I can't know what you don't understand and therefore I can't explain it to you. You'll need to explain what is it that you don't understand.

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Subra 1,852 on at

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Hi @CU10121822-0

Once the Build pipeline and release is availble we can do deployment automatically but Prod can be done through Manually. if you doesn't have any Pipeline all the deployment has to be done Manually after creating a package from VS.

If you have dedicated team for Azure devops you can use them or we can ask D365Fo team to Manage the Build pipeline as well. Additionally, It's depends on your project or your organization how they want to Manage their Azure devops.

Kindly let us know if you need any further clarification.

Thanks,
Subra

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CU10121822-0 652 on at

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Hi Subra, As you said when build pipeline and release pipeline is available, we can do deployment automatically. Here you mean to say CI (build) and CD (release) pipelines.
Pls advise, thanks

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Subra 1,852 on at

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Hi @CU10121822-0

Yes, that's correct.

Thanks,
Subra

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