This document provides a step-by-step guide for Salesforce developers to set up a continuous delivery system using SFDX on an AWS EC2 instance with Jenkins. It covers creating an AWS account, setting up security groups, launching the EC2 instance, installing Jenkins, and configuring it to support code testing and delivery. The guide emphasizes the importance of following the AWS free tier limits to avoid costs while setting up the environment.

1. Salesforce developer journey in
sfdx release management world
( part I )
> 1 Create AWS Instance
2 - Install Jenkins and sfdx on AWS Instance
3 - Setup Pipeline 1 : automate testing your code
4 - Setup Pipeline 2 : automate delivery in a sandbox
Badbaxx - Salesforce developer
@84D84XX

2. Sfdx is now an essential tool to set up in salesforce projects. It is used to ease
the development of LWC and also to facilitate the continuous delivery of the
code and its versioning.
With the experience gained on my latest projects in SFDX release management,
I made this small guide for setting up a simple continuous delivery system in a
sfdx project.
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3. Connect to aws at https://aws.amazon.com
to create an account
https://d1.awsstatic.com/Projects/P5505030/aws-project_Jenkins-build-server.pdf
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4. Follow the instructions and verify your
account
Billing Estimates:
Cost to complete project: The estimated cost to complete this project is
$0.00. This cost assumes that you are within the AWS Free Tier limits, you
follow the recommended configurations. Your use case may require
different configurations that can impact your bill. Use the Simple Monthly
Calculator to estimate costs tailored for your needs.
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5. Your aws account is created
click to go to
sign-in page
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6. your email
Connect to your account
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You are connected to your aws instance

7. Now our next steps are :
Create a Security Group for the Amazon EC2 Instance
Create Key Pair
Launch the EC2 Instance
Connect to the Linux Instance
Download and Install Jenkins
Configure Jenkins
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8. 1. Go to EC2 console to start
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9. 1. 1 - Create a Security Group for the
Amazon EC2 Instance
A security group acts as a virtual firewall that controls the traffic for one or
more instances. When you launch an instance, you can specify one or more
security groups; otherwise, we use the default security group. You can add
rules to each security group that allow traffic to or from its associated
instances. You can modify the rules for a security group at any time; the new
rules are automatically applied to all instances that are associated with the
security group. When we decide whether to allow traffic to reach an instance,
we evaluate all the rules from all the security groups that are associated with
the instance.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-network-security.html
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10. Select Security Groups in the In
the left-hand navigation bar then
select Create Security Group and
Add rule
1. 1 - Create a Security Group for the
Amazon EC2 Instance
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11. /! Decide who may access your instance, for example, a single computer or all trusted computers on a
network. For this tutorial, you can use the public IP address of your computer. To find your IP address,
use the checkip service from AWS. If you are connecting through an ISP or from behind your firewall
without a static IP address, you will need to find the range of IP addresses used by client computers. If
you don't know this address range, you can use 0.0.0.0/0 for this tutorial. However, this is unsafe for
production environments because it allows everyone to access your instance using SSH.
add SSH and HTTP rule
1. 1 - Create a Security Group for the
Amazon EC2 Instance
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-network-security.html
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12. Amazon EC2 uses public–key cryptography to encrypt and decrypt login information. Public–key
cryptography uses a public key to encrypt a piece of data, and then the recipient uses the private key
to decrypt the data. The public and private keys are known as a key pair. Public-key cryptography
enables you to securely access your instances using a private key instead of a password.
When you launch an instance, you specify the key pair. You can specify an existing key pair or a new
key pair that you create at launch. At boot time, the public key content is placed on the instance in an
entry within ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. To log in to your instance, you must specify the private key when
you connect to the instance
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-key-pairs.html#having-ec2-create-your-key-pair
2 - Create Key Pair
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13. 2 - Create Key Pair
Select Key Pairs In the left-hand
navigation bar and click create
Key Pair
Add the name of your Key and
click Create
A .pem file is downloaded. It’s your
private key we will use later
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14. 3 - Launch the EC2 Instance
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Select Instances In the left-hand
navigation bar and click Launch
Instance
You can choose one of the
Amazon free tier machine

15. On the Choose an Instance Type page, the t2.microinstance is selected by default. Keep
this instance type to stay within the free tier
3 - Launch the EC2 Instance
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16. 3 - Launch the EC2 Instance
1. T2 instances must be launched into a subnet. From Network choose your VPC,
and from Subnet choose one of your public subnets (you can let the default).
2. For Auto-assign Public IP, ensure that Enable is selected from the list.
Otherwise, your instance will not get a public IP address or a public DNS name.
3. Click Review and Launch. If you are prompted to specify the type of root
volume, make your selection and then click Next.
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17. Go to Edit security groups (1) => Select an existing security group
and select the Group we did (2) => Review and Launch
You come back to the Step 7 page
=> click Launch (3)
3 - Launch the EC2 Instance
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18. A window pop and ask a key. Choose the one we
created before and click Launch Instance
You should get a Launch status validate (3)
If not (2), wait a bit and retry
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3 - Launch the EC2 Instance
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19. When you go back to the EC2 instance Menu, you
should see the instance running
3 - Launch the EC2 Instance
If you click connect, you will see the public DNS of
your Instance. You will need it later to connect
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20. 4 - Connect to the Linux Instance
Now we have our fresh instance running, we connect to it.
For this task, we will use Putty and PuttyGen, two littles softwares you can find here :
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html
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21. 4 - Connect to the Linux Instance
First we need to convert our key .pem to the putty
format with puTTYGen
Open puttyGen => Load your .pem file ( 1 )
=> Generate the putty key (2)
=> Save the private key without passphrase
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22. 4 - Connect to the Linux Instance
To connect our instance, we now open putty
1. In Host Name, insert your public DNS we see
after starting out instance
2. In Connection>Data, insert the username ec2-
user
3. In Connection>SSH>Auth load your putty key
=> click Open
The first time, a Security alert will pop, click yes
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23. 4 - Connect to the Linux Instance
use command :
sudo yum update
to update your instance
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24. 5 - Install Jenkins
1. Update Java to 1.8 and remove the 1.7 version :
[ec2-user ~]$sudo yum install java-1.8.0
sudo yum remove java-1.7.0-openjdk
1. Add Jenkins repository in the instance :
[ec2-user ~]$ sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/jenkins.repo
http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/redhat/jenkins.repo
1. Import a key file from Jenkins-CI to enable installation from the package :
[ec2-user ~]$ sudo rpm --import
https://pkg.jenkins.io/redhat/jenkins.io.key
1. Install Jenkins :
[ec2-user ~]$ sudo yum install jenkins -y
1. Start Jenkins :
[ec2-user ~]$ sudo service jenkins start
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25. Connect to Jenkins
To know your admin password, add this command in puTTY
[ec2-user ~]$ sudo cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword
In a web brother go to : http://<your_server_public_DNS>:8080
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26. 6 - Configure Jenkins
1. Select Install suggested plugins
2. Create your admin User
> Save and Finish
> Start Using Jenkins
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27. Jenkins is ready to use !
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28. Trouble
I tried to detail all the step. If you found some problems, don’t hesitate to ask
and I’ll update this tutorial.
Error message when trying to install plugins for the first time :
You can try to uninstall and reinstall jenkins to resolve the issue (worked for me)
enter this in putty :
sudo yum remove jenkins
sudo rm -r /var/lib/jenkins
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