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What is DevOps and how can it help teams building on Salesforce? Claudia McPhail explains the basics of DevOps, including version control and automation.
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More and more Salesforce teams are using DevOps to improve their release process. But for others, DevOps is still a new concept.
So let's see what DevOps actually is and what it looks like for teams building on Salesforce.
DevOps is a set of best practices for building, testing, and releasing software.
With DevOps, release cycles are faster, more secure, and less error prone.
These best practices encourage an agile approach to development, which means making small improvements regularly rather than releasing bumps at the end of a big project.
DevOps relies on certain tools and processes.
For Salesforce teams, a smart deployment engine is crucial to make deployments faster and more likely to succeed.
Version control is also a key DevOps practice.
Version control makes it easier to track who made what changes so teammates are less likely to block each other's releases or overwrite changes.
Next, there's automation, in particular CICD.
Continuous integration and continuous delivery is a way for you to automatically test and validate your team's development work before you deploy.
With CICD releases are small and frequent and therefore much less error prone.
Finally, DevOps isn't complete without a backup and restore process, so businesses can quickly recover from data or metadata loss.
In short, Salesforce teams using DevOps can release to production more often and develop new features faster. They ship fewer bugs and recover more quickly from incidents. Ultimately, Salesforce teams can use DevOps to meet business demands and help deliver ROI on Salesforce.
