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DevOps for Salesforce

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Published in Sep 2018

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ISBN-13 9781788833349

Pages 220 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Priyanka Dive

Nagraj Gornalli

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

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Preface

1. Salesforce Development and Delivery Process

2. Applying DevOps to Salesforce Applications

3. Deployment in Salesforce

4. Introduction to the Force.com Migration Tool

5. Version Control

6. Continuous Integration

7. Continuous Testing

8. Tracking Application Changes and the ROI of Applying DevOps to Salesforce

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Index

Example – the typical DevOps process for a Java development stack

The prerequisites are as follows:

Java version 1.6 or above
Apache Maven 3.5.2
Jenkins server

Note

Note: Use latest version of software available. In future, the previous versions may not be compatible.

If you haven't already installed Java, you can download it from the official website: https://java.com/en/download/.

Use the following commands for this sample CI/CD application. I will be using an Ubuntu 16.04 instance for setup. So let's start by installing Java.

Log in to your Ubuntu server machine as a normal user. We need a user with sudo access for installing packages on the machine. I will be using the Ubuntu username for this example:

# sudo apt-get update 
# sudo apt-get install default-jdk

The previous commands will install Java version 8 on the machine. Verify this with the following command:

Note

Note: The same setup should work if the Java version is incremented to a stable version.

$java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_151...

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Authors (2)

Priyanka Dive

Priyanka Dive is a DevOps engineer with substantial experience of working in the IT field on various technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, AWS, and Azure. She has worked on big data projects as a system and DevOps administrator. She has worked on Salesforce projects and implemented DevOps practices for small and large projects as well. She's a constant learner with a desire to learn anything new, and hence enjoys doing a lot of tech POCs. She is also a technical blogger who loves to write on emerging technologies. She is currently working as a DevOps Engineer Consultant for a US-based firm.

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Nagraj Gornalli

Nagraj Gornalli is a Team Leader at Persistent Systems on Salesforce projects. He has more than eight years' experience in the IT field with different technologies. He has done many certifications' such as Salesforce Certified Administrator, Salesforce Certified Platform Developer, Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant, Data Integration Specialist, Advanced Apex Specialist, Data Integration Specialist, and cloud certified professional. He started as a trailblazer and is now ranked as a "Ranger" in trailhead.

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