What this book covers
Chapter 1, A Brief History of Deploying Salesforce Changes, discusses the unique challenges of developing on the Salesforce platform and looks at previous attempts to solve them.
Chapter 2, Developing a DevOps Culture, sets up a foundation for DevOps success by emphasizing the need to establish a cultural mindset ahead of technology.
Chapter 3, The Value of Source Control, explores the fundamental technology that enables a DevOps implementation – source control.
Chapter 4, Testing Your Changes, reiterates the importance of regular and early testing and explore methods for accomplishing it.
Chapter 5, Day-to-Day Delivery with SFDX, walks through a reasonably typical development and deployment scenario using Salesforce’s SFDX toolset.
Chapter 6, Exploring Packaging, looks at the another change delivery method in Salesforce, as we visit the different types of Salesforce packaging.
Chapter 7, CI/CD Automation, dives into powerful DevOps automation techniques that make up a full CI/CD pipeline, with examples for popular platforms.
Chapter 8, Ticketing Systems, visits the ways in which a work ticketing system enhances your process and aids rapid delivery through manageable chunks.
Chapter 9, Backing Up Data and Metadata, reiterates the importance of backing up both your data and metadata, and explores the various methods for doing so.
Chapter 10, Monitoring for Changes, discusses the importance of tracking changes across your entire Salesforce estate, ensuring no change is missed.
Chapter 11, Data Seeding Your Development Environments, demonstrates the need for accurate test data in your Salesforce development lifecycle to aid accurate testing.
Chapter 12, Salesforce DevOps Tools – Gearset, begins our exploration of third-party Salesforce DevOps platforms with a look at Gearset.
Chapter 13, Copado, continues looking at the Salesforce DevOps ecosystem as we turn to Copado.
Chapter 14, Salesforce DevOps Tools – Flosum, moves on to the next major player in Salesforce DevOps, with an overview of Flosum.
Chapter 15, AutoRABIT, completes our evaluation of the most common third-party Salesforce DevOps tools as we run through AutoRABIT’s capabilities.
Chapter 16, Other Salesforce DevOps Tools, catches up on other Salesforce DevOps solutions that are less common, but still an option.
Chapter 17, Conclusion, wraps things up with a summary of what we’ve learned and reiterate the important takeaways.
