Create Power Platform Environments For Dev-Test-Prod

The basic set of Power Platform environments required by ALM best practices are a development environment, a test environment and a production environment. A development environment is where makers create the solution. The test environment is where quality assurance testers and end-users test the solution. And the production environment where end-users operate a live version of the solution.

Table Of Contents:
• Open The Power Platform Admin Center
• Create A New Power Platform Environment
• Configure The Development Environment
• Setup The Test And Production Managed Environments

Open The Power Platform Admin Center

Environments are created in the Power Platform Admin Center. Go to admin.powerplatform.com and open the Admin Center homepage.

Create A New Power Platform Environment

To find the Power Platform environments menu, select Manage, and then choose Environments from the submenu. Press thew New button to create a new environment.

Configure The Development Environment

On the New Environment menu select the following setup options:

• Name: choose a name for the environment and use the suffix (DEV). This will let developers know they are in a development environment
• Type: Sandbox for the development environment
• Add a Dataverse data store?: Yes
  
  

Choose a URL for the Dataverse instance. A common pattern for URLs is companyname-purpose-environmentype. In the example below the environment name is devaney-almtutorial-dev. Press the Save button once finished.

After waiting a few moments for the environment to be created the browser will redirect to the development environment’s landing page.

Setup The Test And Production Managed Environments

We also require two more environments to be setup for testing and production. Test and production environments are known as target environments. All target environments are required to be managed environments to use Power Platform Pipelines.

Create a new test environment with these settings:

• Name – Your Environment Name (Test)
• Make This A Managed Environment – Yes
• Type – Sandbox
  
  

The apply these additional settings and press the Save button:

• Type – Sandbox
• URL – companyname-purpose-test
  
  

Repeat the steps to create a new environment for Production with the following settings:

• Name – Your Environment Name (Test)
• Make This A Managed Environment – Yes
• Type – Sandbox
  
  

And apply these additional settings, then press Save:

• Type – Production
• URL – companyname-purpose-prod
  
  

After the setup of all Dev-Test-Prod environments is completed they will appear in the environments menu.

Next Steps

Continue to the next steps in the Power Platform Pipelines & ALM Setup Guide.

Next: Install Power Platform Pipelines In The Host Environment >>

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