Implementing a Simple Pipeline Setup

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a method that is not very common for citizen developers. I wanted to introduced it in a simple manner in order for people to practice it.

ALM makes your deployment quicker and easier.

Warning: This demo is only to demonstrate a simple concept.

Advantages of Pipeline

1. Stores automatically the data

Requirements

1. Dataverse Space – 5USD/Month
2. Production-type environment
3. Deployment Pipeline Configuration (DPC) app installed in Production type environment
4. Environments
   • Default environment – will serve as Prod environment
   • Developer-type environment – if working with a team, use Sandbox Environment
   • Production-type environment – where you will install Power Apps Pipeline

Dataverse Space

Purchase at least one license for any of the Power Platform, Dynamics 365 or Project Online product. The cheapest one I can recommend for now is Power Apps per App which is 5 USD / Month. Once you purchase this, your tenant will receive a 5GB Dataverse Capacity Entitlement.

Production Environment for Pipeline

To utilize Pipeline tool, you must create a separate environment for it to run.

1. Headover to Power Platform admin center (microsoft.com) in order to create a new environement
2. Create a new Production environment with the following settings

This is what we will be using for this demonstration

Ideal setup that you need to look at.