Understanding settings files

Another important part of a healthy ALM is settings files. Those can be used to automatically set a value for environment variables, as well as the correct connection for use in connection references in the target environment. This will minimize manual work after a deployment or after a certain number of custom scripts have been used.

In this section, you will learn how to generate settings files and how to use them in a pipeline.

Note

Microsoft is investing in this area as well. There are plans to introduce more settings to the settings files. For example, there might be the possibility to automatically share apps with the correct groups of people through configuration in these files in the future.

Generating a settings file

First of all, the settings file has to be generated.

To do this, the pac CLI (as described in Chapter 5) has to be installed. We also need an unmanaged version of our solution file on our machine.

Open a command...