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DevOps for Salesforce

You're reading from DevOps for Salesforce Build, test, and streamline data pipelines to simplify development in Salesforce

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788833349

Length 220 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Salesforce

Concepts

DevOps

Authors (3):

Dive

Aphale

Gornalli

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Salesforce Development and Delivery Process FREE CHAPTER

2. Applying DevOps to Salesforce Applications

3. Deployment in Salesforce

4. Introduction to the Force.com Migration Tool

5. Version Control

6. Continuous Integration

7. Continuous Testing

8. Tracking Application Changes and the ROI of Applying DevOps to Salesforce

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Summary

In this chapter, we learned about tracking application changes, Bugzilla, enhancing productivity, and measuring ROI.

We started this book with very basic or no knowledge of DevOps practices or tools used in DevOps. We learned some basics about Salesforce by creating a sample application in Salesforce and discussed the different sandbox environments. Using Eclipse with Salesforce, we can integrate Git with a sandbox to achieve a source control version system. We learned about different deployment methods used in Salesforce, and we automated Salesforce deployments using the Jenkins continuous integration server.

We learned about setting up our own GitLab server and pushing code changes from a Salesforce sandbox to a GitLab repository. Implementing continuous integration in a Salesforce environment with the Jenkins server helps us to speed up deployment to UAT or another sandbox.

We learned how to automate testing for a Salesforce application with Selenium. We discussed Selenium record...

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Authors (3)

Dive

Dive

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.

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Aphale

Aphale

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Gornalli

Gornalli

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.

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