CI/CD 10,000-Feet Overview

GitFlow

GitFlow is a popular way of manage code branches. It is a solid start point and can work with CI/CD flows well.

Source: https://datasift.github.io/gitflow/IntroducingGitFlow.html

High Level CI/CD flow

[Manual CI] Code review -> [Manual CI] Code pull and rebase -> [Manual CI] Pull request -> [Manual CI] Accept pull request -> [Manual CI] Folk out a release brach -> [CI] Run Code Scan -> [CI] Run Unit Tests -> [CI] Send reports -> [CI] Build Packages -> [CI] Restore packages outputs to artefacts repository -> (Optional) [CD] povision containers -> [CD] Deploy to the host servers.

SonarQube in Azure DevOps

The SonarQube Azure DevOps extension is avaiable in marketplace for free!

Power Platform Specific Tools

Sparkl

Provision Containers During the CI/CD Pipeline

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Platforms Comparison