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Help w/ a Basic ALM Scenario - Dev, Test & Prod

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Hi,

 

I'm building a power pages site and I'm trying to understand in simple terms how ALM would work. Here is some basic info about my portal and what it will contain:

 

  • Dataverse tables will be used. Forms will be created from these tables and used in multi-step forms within the portal.
  • The Government Accelerator "managed" solution from Microsoft will also be used. The model-driven app that comes with this solution will be used in conjunction with the public facing portal. Only internal staff will access the model-driven app.
  • Some flows will also be created and used in the portal

My Questions:

  1. I'm familiar with the Power Platfrom CLI available through VS code to transfer the portal between environments. I assume I'll need to run the "pac paportal upload" command every time I'm ready to push my updates downstream to Test and then Prod?
  2. Do I also create a "managed" solution in Dev that contains all my objects including my Dataverse tables, flows and any other objects? How do I easily push this to Test and then Dev?
  3. Since the Government Accelerator itself a collection of "managed" solutions, do I just install these once in all three environments before starting the project?

Please let me know the easiest way to manage all of this. The dev team is very small btw so hopefully I can keep this simple but willing to use devops if needed. @OliverRodrigues @ragavanrajan 

 

 

 

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    oliver.rodrigues Profile Picture
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    Hi

    1 - Yes, however you will need to first provision the portal in your target environemnt. After that, pac paportal upload should be help you moving the customizations
    2 - The solution you will create in DEV will be UNMANAGED, and you will export as MANAGED to be imported in target environments.
    The easiest way = manual export / manual import
    The "scriptiest" way = use pac to exporta/import solutions: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/devops-build-tools
    The nicest way = use Azure DevOps pipeline and automate everything, including Portal and Solutions
    3 - Yes, you should install that in every environment

     

     

    hope this helps

  • Nerd_Gorilla1 Profile Picture
    31 on at

    @OliverRodrigues - Thank you! This is very helpful!

     

    For #2, I'm guessing i'll eventually also be able to use the Pipelines feature?

  • oliver.rodrigues Profile Picture
    9,455 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Yes, the new Pipelines feature basically runs an Azure DevOps behind to automate the build. I haven't played much with it yet because it's in preview. But yes, you will be able to leverage that. 

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