DevOps Launchpad

A free training platform for all areas of Salesforce DevOps

Whether you’re just discovering DevOps, or wondering how it works for the Salesforce platform, DevOps Launchpad is here to help.

Build your Salesforce DevOps skill set
Develop your DevOps knowledge and give your Salesforce career a boost.
Train your development and release teams
Get new and existing team members up to speed on all things Salesforce DevOps.
Earn Salesforce DevOps certifications
Share your DevOps Launchpad certificates on social media and add them to your résumé.

Build your skills and expertise in all areas of Salesforce DevOps

Salesforce DevOps Fundamentals

Cover the full range of DevOps concepts, including version control, CI/CD, test automation, backups and more. Start now.

CI/CD for Salesforce

Sort out continuous integration from continuous deployment, and master release automation for Salesforce. Start now.

Salesforce DevOps Leadership

Become a certified leader for DevOps, so you can drive successful adoption and measure your performance. Start now.

Salesforce Backup

Learn how to build a disaster recovery plan for Salesforce that protects your data and metadata. Start now.

Gearset Academy

Get hands-on experience of Salesforce DevOps, exploring every corner of the Gearset platform. Start now.

About DevOps Launchpad

DevOps Launchpad was created to meet the ever-growing demand for training in DevOps principles and practices, specifically for the Salesforce platform. We’re constantly updating and adding courses with the latest best practices.

The courses and quizzes on DevOps Launchpad are curated by experts in the field from Gearset, the leading DevOps platform for Salesforce. But apart from Gearset Academy, the content on DevOps Launchpad is all vendor-neutral, and useful for anyone learning more about Salesforce DevOps.

Who is DevOps Launchpad for?

DevOps is all about bringing people together to collaborate on one streamlined development life cycle. Whatever your role or level of experience, DevOps Launchpad has courses for you!

Salesforce Admins

Master DevOps with clicks not code, empowering declarative developers and configurators!

Salesforce Developers

Apply DevOps best practices to your Salesforce development process.

Salesforce Architects

Explore how continuous delivery can support well-architected Salesforce orgs.

Release Managers

See how DevOps practices bring visibility and stability to release management.

Development Team Leads

Embrace DevOps culture and improve performance at any team size.

What is observability and why does it matter for Salesforce DevOps?

In the world of Salesforce development, we’re constantly striving for smoother releases, more stable applications, and a better experience for our users. A key practice that underpins all of these goals, and one that's becoming increasingly vital in Salesforce DevOps, is observability. In this blog post, DevOps Architect Andy Barrick deep dives into what observability is, and why should it be on your radar if you’re serious about optimizing your Salesforce DevOps lifecycle.

New Salesforce observability course now available!

Have you ever stared down a cryptic Salesforce error message, feeling like it’s just the tip of a much bigger problem? Maybe your deployments are slower than expected, or users are flagging issues that are hard to track down. If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Get deeper insights into your org’s health and performance with our brand-new Salesforce observability course: your free guide to getting ahead of bugs and failures.

Experts react to the Salesforce Summer ’25 release: what teams really care about

Salesforce’s Summer ’25 release is here, and while Agentforce, AI, and automation remain key trends across the ecosystem, this particular rollout shifts gears slightly. The Summer ’25 release is packed with quieter — yet critical — updates that Salesforce professionals building, deploying, and maintaining orgs truly care about. To cut through the noise and surface what really matters, we sat down with two experienced Salesforce DevOps professionals: Maya Bengtson, DevOps Engineer at Farm Credit Services of America, and Johnathan Flatt, Principal Platform Engineer at Aflac. From debug logs to TypeScript tooling, here’s what they’re most excited about — and why these changes are worth your attention.