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Salesforce DevOps for Architects

Salesforce DevOps for Architects

By : Cowell, Lars Malmqvist
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Salesforce DevOps for Architects

Salesforce DevOps for Architects

4.8 (11)
By: Cowell, Lars Malmqvist

Overview of this book

Rob Cowell is a Salesforce DevOps Advocate with extensive experience as a Salesforce Developer and Architect, guiding best practices for Salesforce DevOps. Lars Malmqvist, a 32x certified Salesforce CTA, has 15 years of experience building advanced Salesforce solutions and is the author of two books, Architecting AI Solutions on Salesforce and Salesforce Anti-Patterns. As the Salesforce Platform evolves, architects face increasing demand for advanced solutions. This book serves as your definitive guide to mastering effective DevOps practices crucial for successful Salesforce projects. Beginning with cultivating a DevOps mindset focused on collaboration and communication, it emphasizes governance, visibility, and accountability. You'll delve into tools and techniques, leveraging the robust capabilities of SFDX to craft your strategy efficiently. This book stands out for its practical approach to Salesforce packaging and CI/CD stack creation, guiding you to build a seamless automated change delivery system with freely available software. It addresses critical operational concerns such as ticket management, backups, change monitoring, and data seeding. In the final chapters, you'll discover third-party solutions to expedite your Salesforce DevOps journey, empowering you to deliver sophisticated and efficient projects.
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Setting up the tools and your project

While in most real-world scenarios, it’s highly likely that both your tools and your project would already be set up and ready for development on an existing implementation, we’re going to cover setting up everything from scratch so that if you want to follow along with the example workflow, you could potentially do so from a fresh Developer Edition Salesforce org.

The Salesforce CLI

The Salesforce CLI is the primary tool for interacting with your Salesforce org from your development tools and is fundamental to automating processes for CI/CD as well.

Figure 5.1 – Overview of the Salesforce CLI download page

Figure 5.1 – Overview of the Salesforce CLI download page

To install the Salesforce CLI on Windows, macOS, or Linux, follow the instructions for the required operating system.

Windows

  1. Go to the Salesforce CLI download page: https://developer.salesforce.com/tools/sfdxcli.
  2. Click on the Windows Installer link to download the installer...

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