We always look forward to some good breaking news from Salesforce and today is a great day for the entire Salesforce community. The much-awaited game-changer platform- the Salesforce DevOps Center has been released and is now generally available.
The platform is a tremendous achievement and a move towards excellence as it will completely revolutionize how releases are deployed and managed across development environments.
The DevOps Center is an overdue replacement for Salesforce Change Sets – the standard, declarative way to move changes between Salesforce environments.
Whilst change sets can get the job done, they do not allow for Salesforce development teams to follow modern DevOps best practices, using tools, or practices such as Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD).
As Salesforce implementations grow more complex, and organizations wish to see more value out of their orgs, this has made way for a large ecosystem of Salesforce DevOps AppExchange apps over the past few years. The DevOps Center is therefore an important step forward to democratize modern deployment best practices for Salesforce development teams.
Work Items
Introducing a new object to track the changes you are making. Work items will include the metadata items that are pushing through environments. But, unlike change sets, work items are created once, and pushed through the pipeline stages.