Accelerating Salesforce Development with Continuous Integration and Deployment

1. CI/CD Deployment in Salesforce
High-Level Overview with Visuals

2. What is CI/CD?
CI (Continuous Integration): Automates code merging and testing
CD (Continuous Deployment): Automates release of code to production
Goal: Faster, error-free, and collaborative development

3. Why CI/CD for Salesforce?
• • Eliminate manual errors
• • Accelerate release cycles
• • Improve code quality
• • Increase team collaboration
• • Traceable and repeatable deployments

4. Salesforce CI/CD Pipeline Overview
1. Developer commits to Git
2. CI tool (e.g., GitHub Actions) runs tests
3. Create validated deployment package
4. Deploy to Sandbox → QA → UAT → Production
5. Monitor and Rollback (if needed)

5. Key Tools and Technologies
• • Source Control: GitHub, GitLab
• • CI Server: GitHub Actions, Jenkins
• • Deployment: SFDX CLI, Copado, Gearset
• • Testing: Apex, Selenium, Provar

6. Benefits of CI/CD in Salesforce
• • Faster time to market
• • Improved code quality
• • Reduced deployment risks
• • Better compliance and rollback
• • Consistent delivery process

7. Best Practices
• • Modularize metadata
• • Use scratch orgs for development
• • Automate testing with every commit
• • Maintain clean version control history
• • Use parameterized scripts for flexibility

8. Questions & Answers
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