This is the slide deck for the virtual presentation devops for admins by David Smith, presented to the Salesforce Welly / Salesforce Wellington community user group, Wednesday April 26, 2023. It was a reprisal of David's session at Kiwi Dreaming in March. Content includes devops tools including Copado Essentials, Salesforce devops center. Also included at the end are some reflections from David around TrailblazerDX which he attended in March.

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The Scenario

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Devops for Admins
(and other people too)

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David Smith
Lead Architect - GravityLab.nz
CTO - FiveToFlow.com
linkedin.com/in/davidsmithnz

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What are the issues here?
● Building changesets are hard!
● No source control
● Deploying with changesets is painful
● Lack of auditability
● Not a lot of coordination

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What is DevOps in a Salesforce context?
The ultimate goal of Salesforce DevOps is to improve the speed, quality,
and reliability of software delivery and operation, while reducing risk and
increasing efficiency.
● Getting changes deployed effectively
● Keeping your system working by managing risk
● Managing testing effectively

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Change Sets
Point to Point
Deployments
Deploy from
Source
Control
CI/CD
Fully
Integrated
Pipeline
Different levels of DevOps

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Where do I start?
1. Stop using change sets. There is a better way. Use tools that do a better job.
2. Think about source control next - track your changes
3. How do you work with multiple developers/functionals?
4. Get faster and more betterer.

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Development Strategy

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What tools are available?

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• Free plan - try it out!
• Can act as a simple point to point, easily upgradeable to source control, from there
you can plug in CI/CD
• Diff etc are super easy to understand.

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When would I use Copado?
• Just starting your devops journey. Source control seems complicated, and you just
want a better tool.
• You want to start using source control, but you want to manage each step of the
process closely.

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• Free
• Source control baked in from the start.
• Follows release management processes
• Expandable by ISV’s
• Build around deployment strategy

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3 core principles:
• Pipelines
• Work items
and bundles
• Source control

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When would I use Salesforce Devops centre?
• You’ve got a well defined release strategy and process.
• You’re working with project managers and other roles like that, who want to bundle
work into work items and control them through release processes.
• You’re happy using github, and leveraging github internal processes to put rules
around your releases.

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The Scenario

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Demo

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Questions?

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● Arrive, pick up badge, Tuesday morning
● Keynotes
● Floor layout
○ 3 levels
● Things to do
What happens at TDX?

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● 5 free api user accounts
● Slack will replace chatter one day. Not soon.
● User management will get better - see permission management stuff. No real work going
into setup, but working on general lightning performance
● There is an internal UI refresh happening…dark mode coming as part of that.
● AI everywhere - Content will benefit most imo.
● 70% of slack customers also use teams.
Biggest Takeaways

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● Game changer. In next
release
● REACTIVE SOQL - INTO
REACTIVE DATATABLE!
Reactive flow

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Thanks!