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It has been amazing to see how pipelines<\/a> in Power Platform have been used over the past few months since the general availability (GA) release in March, saving companies like Lumen<\/a> time and with ALM becoming approachable to more citizen developers. Today, we’re excited to announce many new features available in Pipelines! In this blog post, I\u2019ll be going through the latest updates to the pipelines experience and guiding you through the steps to making your deployments more powerful than before.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The biggest theme of this update is making pipelines better serve their intended purpose: executing deployments when <\/em>and how <\/em>you want. To avoid unexpected disruption of production-level applications and services, we have integrated these new features into pipelines while staying true to our ease-of-use mission.<\/p>\n\n\n

Scheduled Deployments<\/h2>\n\n\n

Now when you go to deploy, there will be an option to schedule<\/strong> the deployment for a later time. To avoid deploying changes during your organization\u2019s business hours, for example, you can schedule it for any time you want after hours or on weekends. Now makers don\u2019t have to wait until after hours to deploy after hours!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Need to make a change and cancel the deployment? No problem! In the maker portal and within the Pipelines configuration app, admins and makers can cancel scheduled deployments as well as those pending approval.<\/p>\n\n\n

In a later update, scheduling will be able to be admin-controlled, meaning that makers will only be able to schedule deployments for admin-preset timeframes (or not; however your organization would prefer it).<\/p>\n\n\n

Extensibility<\/h2>\n\n\n

Deployment process customization has finally arrived. Pipelines extensibility <\/strong>provides admins more control with the ability to configure deployment gates <\/strong>and apply custom logic<\/strong> at multiple steps of your deployment process.\u00a0With Power Automate cloud flows, choose from over 1,000 built-in connectors or use your own custom connectors to run your own custom logic.<\/p>\n\n\n

\"Pipelines<\/figure>\n\n\n

Configuring a\u00a0pre-step<\/strong>\u00a0condition on a deployment stage ensures the deployment request to the target environment is\u00a0pending\u00a0<\/strong>until the deployment is\u00a0approved<\/strong> or rejected. Respectively, the system then carries out the automated deployment or notifies the maker of what changes are needed for approval. <\/p>\n\n\n

Note that deployments will run in the requesting maker’s context. Soon, deploying via service principal will be supported. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

Another common use case is integrating other systems. For example, committing solutions to a source code repository or running automated tests and code scans. With Power Platform handling the heavy lifting, these hybrid approaches enable advanced functionality at a fraction of the setup and maintenance costs when compared to running CI\/CD tools standalone. Perhaps most importantly, the maker friendly in-product experience doesn\u2019t expose background complexities.<\/p>\n\n\n

Release Notes<\/h2>\n\n\n

Now makers can add notes<\/strong> to their deployments. Adding context to deployments can assist admin in understanding what is being deployed and the purpose of the deployment. This can be leveraged with extensibility to give admins who are approving deployments more context for the deployment and solution contents.<\/p>\n\n\n

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These deployment notes will also be available in the run history<\/strong> and pipelines configuration app for future reference, so management of deployments becomes easier as well.<\/p>\n\n\n

Coming soon, everyone will be able to use the AI-suggested deployment notes<\/strong> to automatically generate deployment notes, from solution descriptions to version diffs.<\/p>\n\n\n

Support for Power Pages<\/h2>\n\n\n

Building on the excitement from Power Pages configuration being supported in solutions, pipelines is now available within the solution experience in the Power Pages portal.<\/p>\n\n\n

Sovereign cloud support <\/h2>\n\n\n

By mid-June<\/strong>, pipelines will be available in all sovereign clouds (in addition to all public cloud regions).<\/p>\n\n\n

Learn more about pipelines<\/h2>\n\n\n