Glossary
Solution (Power Platform)
A Power Platform packaging unit containing apps, flows, tables, and other components for deployment between environments.
A solution in the Power Platform is the packaging unit containing apps, flows, Dataverse tables, custom connectors, environment variables, and other components — for promoting changes between environments (dev → test → prod). Two types: unmanaged solutions for development (artefacts editable in the target environment) and managed solutions for production (artefacts locked from modification). The solution export/import workflow is the foundation of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for Power Platform — combined with deployment pipelines, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions, solutions enable CI/CD-style promotion. Environment variables within solutions let you parameterise per-environment values (connection strings, URLs) so the same solution promotes cleanly through dev / test / prod.