Implement DevOps for Salesforce and explore its features
Key Features:
- Learn DevOps principles and techniques for enterprise operations in Salesforce
- Implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using tools such as Jenkins and Ant script
- Use the Force.com Migration Tool and Git to achieve versioning in Salesforce
Book Description:
Salesforce is one of the top CRM tools used these days, and with its immense functionalities and features, it eases the functioning of an enterprise in various areas of sales, marketing, and finance, among others. Deploying Salesforce applications is a tricky event, and it can get quite taxing for admins and consultants. This book addresses all the problems that you might encounter while trying to deploy your applications and shows you how to resort to DevOps to take these challenges head on.
Beginning with an overview of the development and delivery process of a Salesforce app, DevOps for Salesforce covers various types of sandboxing and helps you understand when to choose which type. You will then see how different it is to deploy with Salesforce as compared to deploying with another app. You will learn how to leverage a migration tool and automate deployment using the latest and most popular tools in the ecosystem. This book explores topics such as version control and DevOps techniques such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and testing. Finally, the book will conclude by showing you how to track bugs in your application changes using monitoring tools and how to quantify your productivity and ROI.
By the end of the book, you will have acquired skills to create, test, and effectively deploy your applications by leveraging the features of DevOps.
What You Will Learn:
- Implement DevOps for Salesforce and understand the benefits it offers
- Abstract the features of Force.com MigrationTool to migrate and retrieve metadata
- Develop your own CI/CD Pipeline for Salesforce project
- Use Qualitia to perform scriptless automation for Continuous Testing
- Track application changes using Bugzilla
- Apply Salesforce best practices to implement DevOps
Who this book is for:
If you are a Salesforce developer, consultant, or manager who wants to learn DevOps tools and set up pipelines for small as well as large Salesforce projects, this book is for you.
Priyanka Dive is a DevOps engineer with substantial experience of working in the IT field on various technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, AWS, and Azure. She has worked on big data projects as a system and DevOps administrator. She has worked on Salesforce projects and implemented DevOps practices for small and large projects as well. She's a constant learner with a desire to learn anything new, and hence enjoys doing a lot of tech POCs. She is also a technical blogger who loves to write on emerging technologies. She is currently working as a DevOps Engineer Consultant for a US-based firm.
Nagraj Gornalli is a Team Leader at Persistent Systems on Salesforce projects. He has more than eight years' experience in the IT field with different technologies. He has done many certifications' such as Salesforce Certified Administrator, Salesforce Certified Platform Developer, Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant, Data Integration Specialist, Advanced Apex Specialist, Data Integration Specialist, and cloud certified professional. He started as a trailblazer and is now ranked as a "Ranger" in trailhead.
