Mastering Salesforce DevOps: A Practical Guide to Building Trust While Delivering Innovation

© Andrew Davis 2019

A. DavisMastering Salesforce DevOps https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5473-8_6

6. Environment Management

Andrew Davis¹ 

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San Diego, CA, USA

 

Careful application development demands different environments to play different roles such as development, testing, training, and production. The software delivery lifecycle is largely a process of promoting changes through these environments, and thus it’s important to begin with an overview of the different types of Salesforce environments and how to manage them.

An Org Is Not a Server

Although this is obvious to Salesforce veterans, it’s an important clarification to make for anyone new to the platform. A Salesforce org is not a server. It’s also not something that you can ever run on ...