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Salesforce CI pipelines demystified
by Mariia Pyvovarchuk

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● Introduction
● About Continuous Integration (CI)
● CI platforms
● About SFDX and scratch orgs
● Benefits of using CI
● GitHub Actions
● Authentication
● Demo
● Alternatives.
● QA
Agenda

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Hi! I’m Mariia, Salesforce developer at Noltic 🇺🇦

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An example of CI based on
GitHub
About Continuous Integration (CI)

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1. Helps detect conflicts quickly.
2. Makes the deployment process faster.
3. Help keeping different environments in sync.
4. Formatt Code.
5. Boosts security.
6. Makes roll-back process easier.
7. Improves code quality by automated code scanning and testing.
Benefits of using CI

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● GitHub Actions
● Circle CI
● Jenkins
● GitLab Pipelines
● Bitbucket Pipelines
● TravisCI
CI Platforms

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About scratch orgs. Limitations.

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sfdx force:limits:api:display -u <name of your devhub>
Check org limitations

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GitHub Actions
Github Repository

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SFDX_AUTH_URL:
force://<clientId>:<clientSecret>:<refreshToken>@<instanceUrl>
Command in terminal:
sfdx force:org:display -u my-demo --verbose
Authentication

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1. .yml file construction.
2. Create a simple pipeline in GitHub.
3. What can be done with .yml file configurations.
4. Create new branch, push changes and show how new pipeline is
started and run on the scratch org.
5. Commit changes and let CI run tests.
Demo

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Single event:
Multiple events:
Adding issue event:
Adding filters (branch namesPRs):
Workflow magic

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Using branches-ignore or tags-ignore keywords.
Workflow ignoring magic:

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1. CI also can be performed without SFDX (using Ant for example).
2. Using Sandboxes instead of Scratch orgs.
Alternatives in Salesforce

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Sandbox pipeline

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GitHub Actions documentation:
https://docs.github.com/en/actions
Simple step-by-step guide:
https://www.salesforceben.com/how-to-build-a-ci-cd-pipeline-for-salesforce/
CI by Gearset:
https://docs.gearset.com/en/articles/605227-continuous-integration
https://medium.com/@maheshchouhan1995/ci-cd-using-gearset-309332ae8a9c
Best practices:
https://www.copado.com/devops-hub/blog/salesforce-ci-cd-best-practices-build-run-test-cddd
About CI:
https://www.qentelli.com/thought-leadership/insights/continuous-integration
Links and sources:

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Q/A

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