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DevOps for Salesforce

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788833349
Pages 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
Priyanka Dive Priyanka Dive
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Nagraj Gornalli Nagraj Gornalli
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters close

Title Page
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Contributors
Preface
1. Salesforce Development and Delivery Process 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 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Deployment using the Ant Migration Tool


The Ant Migration Tool provides a way to deploy metadata from the local directory to a Salesforce sandbox. We can use the Ant command-line utility to automate deployment tasks in Salesforce.

The Ant Migration Tool helps us to retrieve and deploy metadata to and from a sandbox.

This tool can also be used to take backups of your sandbox metadata. To configure access to the sandbox, we need to provide sandbox credentials in the build.properties file. The build.xml file contains commands for retrieving or deploying metadata. Package.xml contains the components to be retrieved or deployed. 

 

The Ant Migration Tool is explained in detail via an example in Chapter 4Introduction to the Force.com Migration Tool

We will discuss some scenarios where the Ant Migration Tool deployment type can be used:

  • Deployment can involve many setup changes, but using the web interface to make those changes is a difficult and time-consuming job. The Ant Migration Tool can be...
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