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DevOps in Action: Automated CI/CD and Environment Management for Business Central Extensions

Accelerate your Business Central development lifecycle with robust DevOps practices tailored for Power Platform integrations. In this interactive workshop, you’ll build and deploy Business Central extensions through end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, manage multiple environments, and enforce quality gates—all within Azure DevOps.

Hands-On Lab: YAML-Driven Builds
– Author YAML build pipelines to compile AL code and package Business Central extensions
– Implement automated unit tests using Test Runner and SonarCloud quality analysis
– Publish artifacts to Azure Artifacts feeds and prepare release definitions

Environment Deployment & Release Gates
– Create multi-stage release pipelines: dev → test → production
– Apply approval gates and automated smoke tests
– Use Infrastructure as Code (Bicep) to provision sandbox and production environments

Monitoring, Rollback & Best Practices
– Integrate Azure Monitor and Application Insights for deployment telemetry
– Define rollback strategies using deployment history and feature flags
– Share tips for scaling pipelines and managing solution lifecycle

Key Takeaways
Production-ready YAML pipeline templates for Business Central ALM. Automated testing and quality-gate configurations to ensure stable releases .Environment provisioning with IaC for consistent sandbox and production setups. Monitoring dashboards and rollback patterns to maintain 99% deployment reliability

Nikita Verma

Cloud Native Contributor

Bhubaneswar, India

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