DevOps Launchpad | Expert Salesforce DevOps training

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.

From change sets to CI/CD: a Salesforce DevOps success story

In this blog post, Jeremy Foster, Manager of Salesforce Development at Pilot Company, shares his team’s journey from the frustrations of manual change sets, to learning modern continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) best practices through DevOps Launchpad, and ultimately implementing scalable CI pipelines with Gearset. He walks through each stage of that transformation, discussing how CI/CD enabled faster, safer, and more collaborative delivery across multiple teams.

Getting started with Git for Salesforce: my journey to DevOps success

Salesforce deployments can be notoriously complex and error-prone, especially when relying on traditional methods like manual change sets. As a Salesforce admin who has navigated these challenges, Eric Kenney discovered that integrating Git and structured DevOps practices can significantly streamline the deployment process and enhance team efficiency. In this article, Eric outlines the common deployment challenges Salesforce teams face, explains how adopting Git and DevOps can address these issues, and shares practical, actionable steps for implementing these processes effectively.

Beginner’s guide to Git branching strategies

Branches, commits, pull requests, merging, conflicts — these are familiar terms we hear across the wider software engineering world, and within high-performing Salesforce teams. But tying them all together into a strategy can be tricky. With long-lived sandboxes and varied metadata types, Salesforce’s unique development model can make it even harder to adopt a branching strategy that works for everyone, adding to the initial learning curve.