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What are the pros and cons of enabling developer environments in Power Platform?

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We are considering whether or not to enable developer environments for the Power Platform (currently not enabled). What are the pros and cons of enabling developer environments in Power Platform? What is the maintenance load on the power platform admin?

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Pros:
Every developer environment comes with a message which clearly indicates purpose of the environment.
Users can create up to 3 developer environments and you don't have to manage/provision for them every time if they start developing solutions.
It also comes up with all the features listed here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/developer/plan#which-features-are-included-in-the-power-apps-developer-plan
Newly created developer environments can become managed environments. This is to support the environment routing which is in preview currently. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/default-environment-routing?tabs=ppac
Cons:
You will have less control on naming conventions of the environments.
Flow runs/month (750) and capacity limits up to 2 GB.
Enabling managed environments need premium licenses for the users. If you would like to use environment routing that is something to note.
You can't run Production use solutions.
Note: Environments created using Power Apps Developer Plan that are inactive for the last 90 days will be deleted after notifying the environment owners.
You need to make sure, users are aware of this.

Developer environments add more values once the environment routing becomes GA.

As long as you have guardrails set-up and monitor the number of environments and solutions using CoE starter kit.

Make sure, you create own comms internally within SharePoint site or emails to communicate the consequences with users will help you manage it properly.

Hope that helps.

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Feel free to mark it as 'Accepted solution' which helps others in future.

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