This document provides an introduction and overview of Copado presented by Hariprasath Thanarajah to the New Delhi Salesforce Developer Group. It discusses what Copado is, the limitations it addresses compared to other deployment tools like change sets, how it works, what licenses are available, and how to get started with a Copado playground. The next session will cover key Copado elements and deploying changes between environments.

1. New Delhi Salesforce Developer Group
#ImpactSalesforceSaturday
Introduction to Copado
-Hariprasath Thanarajah - Senior Salesforce
Developer
LEARN . SHARE . CELEBRATE . SALESFORCE

2. About Me: Hariprasath Thanarajah
● Senior Salesforce Developer @ Wiley
● Copado MVP
● 4 X SF Certified and 2 X Copado Certified Developer
● Salesforce Analytics Champion
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hariprasath-thanarajah-5234b660/
@hariss63
https://trailblazer.me/id/hthanarajah

3. New Delhi Salesforce DG
• First Revival Meetup in February 2016
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/newdelhisfdcdug
• Hashtag: #ImpactSalesforceSaturday
• New Delhi Salesforce DG Trailblazer Community Group:
http://bit.ly/NewDelhiCommunity
• Website: https://newdelhisfdcdug.com

4. Aim : To understand what is Copado in terms of Salesforce
DevOps.
Prerequisites :
Nothing specifically , But better to
know the basics.
• Salesforce basics – About Salesforce
Organizations.
• Git Basics (Optional)
• Salesforce Deployment processes.

5. What is Copado?
Copado is the #1 DevOps tools native to Salesforce that helps Admin, Developers,
Release Managers, and the Product Owners to deliver the feature in a faster
and secure manner to the market.
Before moving to Copado?

6. Limitations in Change sets
- We can’t deploy the different types of metadata in one shot.
- It’s not feasible to merge code in a common Salesforce org from other developer org’s.
- We can’t use the same Change set to move the changes to different environments.
- It’s not possible to integrate with Version Control System.
- There are no ways to do partial deployment using Change Set.
- ………….
Tools and the Limitations of other Deployment options
Change Sets
Force.com Migration Tools
Force.com IDE/ Eclipse

7. Copado Architecture
Copado enables you to Operate Salesforce Faster with More Trust

8. Copado Architecture
Copado Back End

9. • Faster time to Market
• Reduce the risk for the Complex implementation (like conflict resolution, point and click UI’s
to achieve our goals)
• More Secure, Predictable and stable releases
• Align the business goals with Technology
• Optimize the Team’s performance.
The values that Copado brings to the team

10. • How the user can access Copado in Production?
• How they can commit the changes with the integrated Git repository?
• How Copado sync the metadata in Org and Git?
• How the user are authorized to access the Copado?
How we can use the Copado

11. • Assign the App Exchange Licenses and the Copado Permission sets.
• Create and authenticate an Org Credentials for the user against the Org where the Copado
is installed.
• Assign feature-based licenses to the authenticated user via Copado license Manager.
• Generate a personal API key to interact with the API’s.
Initial configurations to start using Copado

12. • Copado Enterprise License.
• Copado Change Management License.
• Copado Branch Management License.
• Copado Agile Delivery License.
• Copado Compliance Hub License.
• Advance Data Deploy.
• Copado Selenium Testing.
Copado Licenses

13. GO THROUGH THE PLAYGROUND

14. • Signup to Copado Community - https://success.copado.com/
• Signup to GitHub - https://github.com/join
• Create a Playground to hands-on with Copado.
• Copado Community -> Click HELP & TRAINING tab -> MY PLAYGROUNDS -> Create
NEXT SESSION
• We will be discussing the key elements of Copado (Org Credentials, Environments, Git
Repository, Git Snapshots, Pipeline, Projects, and User Story).
• Deploy changes from lower environments until production.
Pre-Requisite for the next session

16. Follow & Join New Delhi Salesforce DG
• Join to know about future events and to RSVP:
https://trailblazercommunitygroups.com/delhi-in-developers-group/
• Let’s start conversations on Success Community:
http://bit.ly/NewDelhiCommunity
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