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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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Summary

In this chapter, we’ve explored a couple of solutions to implement a Salesforce CI/CD pipeline, using freely available tools. In looking at the setup for both GitHub Actions and Jenkins, we saw that the fundamental steps of the pipeline are the same, but with differences in the specific implementation.

We’ve also seen that these tools depend heavily on the Salesforce CLI tool and the SFDX approach to managing your metadata, to carry out the steps that make up the CI/CD pipeline. Of course, the use of SFDX is not mandatory – anything that leverages the Metadata API could be used instead, but it’s worth noting that building the necessary scripts to manage this entire process represents a significant development and maintenance effort by whoever is responsible for managing your DevOps toolchain. This can be mitigated by adopting DevOps solutions and platforms that are designed to work specifically with Salesforce only. We’ll cover some of...

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