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Month: September 2019

Agents, Agent- and Deployment Pools – CI / CD Part 3

Agents, Agent- and Deployment Pools – CI / CD Part 3

Artifacts and Deployment Stages and Controlling the Artifact Flow should be clear. It’s time to see what Azure DevOps provide to deploy Artifact(s) into target environment(s). Two scenarios must be covered: SaaS and OnPrem. Both uses the same install base of Dynamics 365 Business Central, but are different in your access rights. Dynamics 365 Business Central – SaaS Here Release Artifact(s) (e.g. per-tenant App) must be deployed into your SaaS environment, your Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant – hosted by Microsoft: BC Sandbox (Microsoft SaaS…

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Controlling the Artifact Flow – CI / CD Part 2

Controlling the Artifact Flow – CI / CD Part 2

In my last post I described my view on Artifacts and Deployment Stages. Now it’s time to look at the Artifact flow. Remember, an Artifact is unchangeable. Therefore it’s deployed only in one direction – strait forward – until any stage in the flow fails or it reaches the final destination. Controlling the Flow You control the flow – each stage – by these questions: When is a stage executed? … Trigger(s) Who allow the Artifact to enter the stage and what must be or informed?…

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Artifacts and Deployment Stages – CI / CD Part 1

Artifacts and Deployment Stages – CI / CD Part 1

Setup of a modern Development Process for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with Azure DevOps is state of the art. It’s future proof, especially to handle monthly updates in the SaaS world. Unfortunately, there is no standard setup for Azure DevOps and no standard CI / CD process available – not yet. Conclusion – we need to define this Setup and the CI / CD process for MSDyn365BC! Artifacts Let’s keep it simple – an Azure DevOps Artifact is a package….

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