Power Platform Automated Deployment with GitHub Actions (ALM)

Environments used

• build
• dev
• hotfix
• prod

Each of the above environments have specific purposes that they will fulfill.

build

Used for performing build operations, importing unmanaged solutions, converting to managed solutions, integration validation.

dev

Main develoment environment will development activities will take place, this can be a single dev environment or several that are used by different developers.

hotfix

This is used for working on hotfixes and keeping current work items isolated from hotfix work. This provides a way of separating from a regular iterations work items to resolve issue(s) that need to be worked on and released outside of a normal iteration.

test

Test environment used for user acceptance testing.

prod

Production envrionment, only publish managed solutions and used for production access to the system.

GitHub Workflows

build-deploy-solution.yml

convert-unmanaged-to-managed.yml

delete-and-import-unmanaged-solution.yml

delete-unmanaged-solution-and-components-from-environment.yml

deploy-tagged-solution-to-environment.yml

determine-solution-build-deploy.yml

export-unpack-commit-solution.yml

import-unmanaged-solution.yml

workflows-pr.yml

Solution