Mastering Salesforce DevOps

This practical guide brings DevOps principles to Salesforce development. You will understand the convergence of two major movements within the IT world: the movement to Software/Platform as a Service (SaaS/PaaS), and the DevOps movement. The goal of SaaS and PaaS is to provide a scalable, global, high-performing foundation for companies to invest in their core competencies rather than having to maintain their own infrastructure. And the goal of DevOps is to optimize the process of delivering software innovation and value.

Prior to the release of Salesforce DX in late 2017, it was not possible to have a true DevOps workflow on Salesforce. For all of the power and effectiveness of the platform, Salesforce deployments were notoriously painful. Salesforce DX finally provides the raw capabilities to enable a DevOps workflow, but it alone does not provide a complete picture of how to bring all of these capabilities together. DevOps is new to the Salesforce world and there is not a widespread understanding of its goals and methods, and so adoption of Salesforce DX is slow and in the very early stages.

Mastering Salesforce DevOps explains how to build a powerful and comprehensive DevOps workflow for Salesforce-allowing you to finally deploy the world's most innovative platform using the world's most effective and efficient techniques. It addresses the need for a comprehensive guide to DevOps for Salesforce, allowing teams to bring proven practices from the IT world to resolve the hardest problems facing Salesforce developers today.

What You Will Learn

• Improve company performance and software delivery performance using Salesforce DX
  
• Translate DevOps concepts into the unique language and practices of Salesforce
  
• Understand why and how you can implement Salesforce DX to achieve greater productivity and innovation
  
• Enable continuous delivery on Salesforce
  
• Build packages and architect code so it can be deployed easily
• Allow admins to participate in what has traditionally been a developer workflow
  
• Know the techniques for reducing the stress and risk of deployment
• Apply the full range of automated tests that can be used on Salesforce

Who This Book Is for

Salesforce developers, release managers, and those managing Salesforce development teams who need a guide to DevOps, and DevOps specialists who need to apply familiar concepts to Salesforce