Scenario 0: ALM for a new project
If you're new to Power Apps and creating your first app, follow the tasks described in this article to successfully deploy a functioning application to your production environment using a healthy application lifecycle management (ALM) strategy.
| Task | Description | More information |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Plan and implement your environment strategy. | Determining the environments you'll need and establishing an appropriate governance model is a critical first step. At a minimum, you should have two environments: dev and production. However, we recommend that you have three environments: dev, test, and production. | Environment strategy |
| 2. Create a solution and publisher. | Start with a blank solution, and create a custom publisher for that solution. | Solution publisher |
| 3. Set up your DevOps project. | Set up a DevOps project in which you'll later add several pipelines to perform required processing like export and deployment of your solution. | Setting up continuous integration and deployment Create a project |
| 4. Create your export from development pipeline in DevOps. | Create a DevOps pipeline to export your completed unmanaged solution to a managed solution. | Create your first pipeline Build and release pipelines Build pipeline: Export a solution from development (DEV) |
| 5. Configure and build your app. | Create your app within the solution you created. | Model-driven apps: Build your first model-driven app from scratch Canvas apps: Create an app from scratch using Microsoft Dataverse |
| 6. Add any additional customizations to that solution. | Add additional components as needed. Choose from a vast selection of components, such as flows, AI models, export to data lake configuration, web resources, plug-ins, and even other apps. | Create components in a solution Add an existing component to a solution |
| 7. Create a deployment pipeline in DevOps. | Create a DevOps pipeline to deploy your managed solution to one or more target production environments. | Build and release pipelines Release pipeline: Deploy to production (PROD) |
| 8. Grant access to the app. | Assign licensing and assign security roles to share applications with users. | Licensing Share a model-driven app Share a canvas app |