Question

A Business Solutions Architect is designing the ALM process for a Copilot Studio agent that uses several custom connectors and Power Automate actions. The agent is built in a development environment and must be reliably promoted to test and production environments without manually re-authoring topics or reconfiguring connections. The team also needs source control integration and repeatable deployments through their existing Azure DevOps pipeline. Which approach best supports this ALM requirement?

Accepted Answer

Package the agent and its dependent connectors and actions in a managed solution, export it, and use Power Platform Build Tools to import and deploy across environments via the Azure DevOps pipeline

Answer

Manually recreate the agent in each target environment and share the topic definitions as documentation so developers can reproduce the configuration consistently

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Publish the agent directly to production from the development environment and use environment variables to switch connection references after publishing

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Copy the development environment using a full environment copy for each release so test and production always mirror development exactly