A Salesforce DevOps course
Course introduction
The CI/CD for Salesforce course provides comprehensive training designed specifically for Salesforce teams seeking to automate and optimize their software development and deployment processes. You’ll understand the critical elements of continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment, and continuous delivery, significantly reducing manual tasks, minimizing errors, and accelerating your development velocity.
This certification equips you with essential DevOps skills and best practices to enhance your organization’s agile processes and development cycles.
Who is the CI/CD for Salesforce course for?
Admins, Developers, Team Leaders
This course is tailored for Salesforce admins, developers, DevOps professionals, and release managers aiming to validate their DevOps skills with an advanced certification. No previous CI/CD knowledge is required, just an eagerness to learn and implement continuous integration and delivery effectively.
What you’ll achieve with the CI/CD for Salesforce course
- Clearly understand continuous integration and continuous deployment
- Explore ways to streamline software development and delivery workflows
- Learn how to manual effort and errors through infrastructure automation
- Acquire the essential technical skills required by DevOps professionals
- Understand the DevOps processes that dramatically improve software quality and reliability
What the CI/CD for Salesforce course includes
The course covers all aspects of Salesforce-specific CI/CD practices, from core concepts to practical application knowledge. Through this certification, you will:
- Understand DevOps principles – Learn foundational DevOps concepts including continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Gain insights into continuous integration – Understand how automated workflows integrate and test changes continually to ensure minimal conflicts and smooth deployments.
- Explore infrastructure automation – Learn how DevOps practices automate software builds, testing, and deployment to enhance productivity.
- Discover effective source control strategies – Learn best practices for using version control systems (VCS) integrated with automation tools to maintain a reliable, auditable development history.
- Acquire valuable DevOps knowledge – Develop an understanding of configuration management, managing production systems, and complying with governance processes and security controls.
- Learn best practices for software deployment – Understand how automated testing and repeatable deployment processes reduce risks and increase deployment confidence.
CI/CD for Salesforce course content
What’s DevOps CI/CD?
Understand the core principles of DevOps CI/CD, how it automates your software development lifecycle, and the essential role continuous integration and continuous deployment play in maintaining high-quality software and reliable deployments.
Continuous integration explained
Deep dive into continuous integration, the essential practice of integrating changes from multiple contributors, validating deployments through automated tests, and maintaining a consistently deployable codebase.
Continuous deployment and delivery
Explore the practical differences between continuous deployment and continuous delivery. Understand their roles within Salesforce DevOps and how automated processes ensure rapid, reliable delivery of software improvements.
Implementing effective CI/CD processes
Learn how to effectively implement CI/CD within your Salesforce environments, handle common challenges posed by Salesforce-specific metadata, and choose the right DevOps tools to streamline deployment processes.
Transitioning to continuous delivery
Understand the cultural and technical shifts required for successful continuous delivery implementation, including strategies to gradually reduce release cycles, tighten feedback loops, and improve your overall software development and deployment processes.
CI/CD for Salesforce course final assessment
Complete the final assessment to validate your comprehensive understanding of CI/CD principles and practical Salesforce DevOps implementations. Passing this exam certifies your skills and qualifies you as a recognized DevOps professional, significantly enhancing your career prospects.
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FAQs
What is DevOps Launchpad?
DevOps Launchpad is a free training platform packed with courses and resources for anyone in the Salesforce ecosystem looking to upskill in Salesforce DevOps.
The certifications, courses, and quizzes on DevOps Launchpad are curated by experts in the field from Gearset, the leading DevOps platform for Salesforce. But the majority of content on DevOps Launchpad is all vendor-neutral, and useful for anyone learning more about Salesforce DevOps.
Who is DevOps Launchpad for?
Anyone involved in any aspect of the build, test and release cycle for Salesforce – it doesn’t matter if you’re brand new to the ecosystem or more experienced in Salesforce development.
Our courses are designed to upskill everyone in DevOps, regardless of role. Whether you’re an admin, a developer, an ISV partner or a technical architect, there’s something here for you.
How do I complete courses and get certificates?
DevOps Launchpad courses are broken down into modules. To finish a module, you usually complete a quiz to test your knowledge with multiple-choice questions. Once you finish all the modules in a course, you’ll earn a certificate which can be downloaded and saved to your resume, or shared on your social profiles.
How do I navigate the platform?
Click the Courses tab to see the courses and certification tracks that you’ve enrolled for. This page will be blank until you choose courses in the library. If you want to return to a course in progress or one that you’ve previously completed, head to this page.
The Results tab shows your progress through the courses you’ve completed, including any certifications and test results. It’s a great way to track your learning journey and see the skills you’re building.
The Library is where you can browse courses and enrol to continue building your skillset. Once you enrol for a course, it’ll be added to your courses page and you can start working through it.
How do I access my account?
You can access DevOps Launchpad in different ways:
- The DevOps Launchpad homepage
- Direct login
- For Gearset users: click the DevOps Launchpad icon in the Gearset app
Do I have to complete the CI/CD for Salesforce course all in one go?
No, you can take modules and courses in your own time. Your progress will be saved, so you can come back whenever suits your schedule!
Do I get a certificate for the CI/CD for Salesforce course?
You will receive a certificate for each course that you complete. After you have completed all the courses and the final assessment, you will be awarded the official final certification.