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CoE ALM Accelerator for Power Platform before you start (Deprecated)

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Note

The CoE CLI is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use the Power Platform Project Setup Wizard to set up and manage your ALM Accelerator for Power Platform projects.

Before you start an install of ALM Accelerator, ensure that you have the following components in place.

CoE command line

Install the CoE CLI locally or via a docker image.

Power Platform environment prerequisites

Environment Description
Developer Development environments that each maker uses to create and manage source-controlled solutions.
ALM environment Environment with Microsoft Dataverse enabled. This environment will be used to deploy a managed solution.
Validation Environment used to validate builds before merging into a solution branch.
Test Pre-production environment used to test solutions before moving to production.
Production Production environment for managed solutions.

Azure

Ensure the user you run with has the following permissions.

Component Description
Global administrator or privileged role administrator Grant tenant-wide admin consent to an application. More information:Grant admin consent

Azure DevOps

The following components must be installed before the CoE CLI ALM install can begin.

Component Description
Organization Review Add organization users to create Azure DevOps organization and add users.
Project An Azure DevOps project to integrate with. This guide uses the name alm-sandbox as the project name.

The following components are set up or used as part of the install and follow the CoE ALM branch.

Component Description
Extensions Review the extensions configuration that is installed.
Repository Ensure the git repository has been initialized with an initial commit.

Notes:

  1. If installing using demo tenant, you can request a trial Azure DevOps environment.

  2. Review the Azure DevOps Extensions that the CLI application installs to ensure your organization gives consent for them to be installed.

After you've verified the configuration:

  1. Determine the install deployment scenario you're targeting.

  2. Complete the Administration install.