Automation ALM for Power Platform and Dynamics 365 CE/CRM

A solution to improve the ALM process in Power Platform and Dynamics 365 (CRM/CE). This solution is based on top of the ALM Accelerator made in the CoE Starter Kit.

My goal here is to give to the community a solution for Power Platform to improve ALM process in terms of deployment. While the ALM Accelerator for me is the best tool (coupled with an Azure DevOps to manage solution deployment), it was still a manual process to release Dataverse solution. Coming from a D365 Finance Operations background at first, it was for me important (as a lazy guy) to decrease the amount of time needed to release something on a Dataverse environment !

Here's why:

Your time should be focused on creating something amazing. A project that solves a problem and helps others
You shouldn't be doing the same tasks over and over 🔁
You should have a quality/rigorous release package for each new deployment without manual actions 💆‍♂️
No manual deployment for Dataverse !
Your source code is on GIT Control
Pipelines from Microsoft in managed environment are not good
The solution will help you to manage the process in which sometimes Microsoft will also release something on your Dataverse at the same as time as you. (Retry process)
My solution is just on top of the ALM Accelerator solution. I will not cover in the repo how to setup it, but I will do it in my long article as usual 😄

The ALM Accelerator is a very good starter kit to configure a DevOps for Power Platform (end to end) and avoid taking a lot of times to configure it on your side manually. With the Automation ALM in top of it, believe me, you will save a LOT of times !