Chapter 10. DevOps Systems and Patterns
On top of the components inside of the Salesforce ecosystem, there are a lot of additional tools that are commonly used by Salesforce practitioners. Figure 10-1 lists a few of the terms and systems that you may need to become familiar with to build a modern Salesforce DevOps practice. There are some offshoots of several of the open source tools with different names. They will vary a bit from platform to platform, and the idiosyncrasies with Salesforce’s particular code management technologies require some understanding.
Figure 10-1. Elements of a Salesforce DevOps project
If you are already familiar with some of these tools and/or a certain way of doing things, you need to understand each of them can be used in a variety of different ways. If you move to a different organization, you may need to learn to use tools you have experience with in a different way than you are used to. Knowing how to describe the capabilities of the tools and systems you are familiar with and compare them to those used in your new environment will help you get up to speed faster. I have yet to work with two companies that execute DevOps in the exact same way. The most similarities are often observed between companies that have only recently started using Salesforce.
The most basic pattern in DevOps is developer to consumer (user). Starting from that perspective, ...
Get Practical Salesforce Architecture now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
