This edition of the Keenan Vision Podcast I interview Nicolas Vuillamy, a CTO at Cloudity, who is a Salesforce system integrator and custom application developer based in Europe. We talk about his open source project sfdx-hardis (documentation, Github).

Nicolas and his team got a little frustrated with the devops sprawl and other management issues when it came to working with SFDX-CLI pipelines. To make it all work better they created sfdx-hardis, which is a layer on top of SFDX-CLI which encapsulates a lot of common commands.

In this interview we go over the motivation for sfdx-hardis for a bit, then we dive into a demo of its capabilities.

Be sure to check out how sfdx-hardis works by interacting with VS Code to interactively get parameters needed to run a CI/CD pipeline.

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This is a podcast presentation of an article published earlier this week.

https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/2022/12/19/salesforce-devops-center-launches-with-high-expectations/

Salesforce last week finally announced General Availability of DevOps Center, a new Salesforce feature designed to ease application development and release management. DevOps Center was originally introduced under “safe harbor” in late 2019, so this announcement culminates one of the most anticipated releases of a Salesforce feature in the last few years. “DevOps Center is one of our most-requested and most-anticipated solutions ever because it increases efficiency and productivity – and it makes work easier and more accurate for thousands of development teams. It’s now easier than ever to manage changes, collaborate with team members, and ensure you have a synchronized source. And, it’s designed for fusion teams made up of developers across the low-code and pro-code continuum, so you can work inside or outside the DevOps Center UI-based app and everything remains in sync,” said Karen Fidelak, a senior director of product management at Salesforce, in a press release.

Table Of Contents

What is Salesforce DevOps Center?

Using DevOps Center

Who Needs Salesforce DevOps Center?

Salesforce DevOps Center Architecture

Salesforce DevOps Center Industry Impact

Additional Industry Reactions

More Coherent Salesforce Developer Tools for Trailblazers

Trailblazers Move Ahead with DevOps Center

DevOps Center Moves Salesforce Devops Forward

What is Salesforce DevOps Center?

DevOps Center is a new Salesforce feature that lets admins, low code developers, and application developers safely and easily deploy changes to a production org. To do its work, DevOps Center relies heavily on the Salesforce org source tracking features found in scratch orgs and some sandbox types. This lets DevOps Center automatically determine meta data changes in development orgs, update GIT repositories, and then deploy change artifacts to testing and production orgs in a managed devops pipeline.

Ben McCarthy, the founder of SalesforceBen.com, was asked what DevOps Center means for the Trailblazer community. “The Salesforce DevOps Center is an exciting product release for the ecosystem. It will not only change the way Salesforce professionals deploy changes, by bringing out a successor to change sets, but a new mindset, to meet modern DevOps best practices. This is exciting for both the businesses that use Salesforce, as they can accelerate development in a safer way, and the Salesforce professionals that will add another skillset to their repertoire,” said Mr. McCarthy in email correspondence.

Pablo Gonzalez, a Salesforce architect who writes about CI/CD and the Salesforce API at pablogonzalez.io, was blunt about how he thinks DevOps Center is about to make some waves in the Trailblazer community. “The release of DevOps Center forces everyone to think about DevOps. Before its release, we could still hide behind the comfort zone of change sets. Now, Salesforce is sending a strong signal: Git-based deployments and pipelines are the way to deploy changes across your Salesforce orgs,” said Mr. Gonzalez in email correspondence.

As everyone says, the biggest expectation of DevOps Center is to reduce or eliminate the use of change sets to deploy sandbox changes back to a production org. Based on my personal experience, DevOps Center has achieved that important goal.

This week on the Keenan Vision Podcast we delve into Provar Manager with Sam Arroyo, Provar product manager. In this tour we go through what is Provar Manager and get a demo.

Provar pairs intuitive testing solutions, including Provar Automation and Provar Manager, with world-class service to help teams capitalize on their Salesforce investment. Its comprehensive Quality Cloud suite of testing products creates a  quality hub designed to improve release agility, drive down system defects, and advance innovation, meeting people at every stage in their journey — from the individual manual tester to comprehensive QA teams with automated workflows.

Visit www.provartesting.com to learn more.

We have more excellent Salesforce devops demos this week with another member of the SalesforceDevops.net Top Products Gallery, Prodly.

We are blessed to have David Clark, VP of Product over at Prodly to give us a tour of the product today.

Prodly enables Salesforce teams to increase productivity by 80 percent while reducing risk up to 30 percent by putting next-gen DevOps into the hands of admins and citizen developers.

By reimagining the change management experience, Prodly delivers greater business agility, governance, and compliance without straining IT.

The company’s DevOps offering has rapidly expanded from a CPQ data deployment tool to include solutions for modern Salesforce DevOps, data migration, sandbox seeding, and SOX compliance.

Prodly sets the standard for low-code DevOps and can be implemented 20 times faster than traditional applications.

Prodly powers change management workflows for high-growth and Fortune 100 companies, including American Express, Expedia, Stanley Black & Decker, Cardinal Health, Nutanix, Johnson & Johnson, Splunk, Verizon, DoorDash, and Snowflake.

The company is privately held and based in Palo Alto, California with global operations.

For more information, visit prodly.co.

Welcome to the latest episode of the Keenan Vision podcast! This is part of our continuing series of hosting companies who made the SalesforceDevops.net Top Products list. This week we are graced with Dan Puttman who is showing us Salto. ([email protected]).

Salto translates your business applications’ configuration into text, allowing you to search, compare, test, deploy, and track changes across your environments. Dan shows us NaCl, the new application description language devised by Salto, and how it works throughout a Salesforce release management system.

Outline

For more information please contact Salto at https://salto.io or email Dan at [email protected].

Top Line – Definitely very successful

Genie

Best Sessions

Ancillary Services Market for Salesforce is strong

Salesforce Devops Strong

Journalistic Topics

In this episode I get a full demo and product description from Copado demo star [email protected] Nolan Larrabee. This is a podcast series that is part of the Salesforce Devops Top Products gallery. Please be sure to check it out at https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/salesforce-devops-top-products-gallery/.

I love how Nolan took us on a journey through a day-in-life of a Copado team member. I saw how Copado leverages metadata intelligence to keep up with org changes and to organize the development process. We also saw how Copado has an extensive Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) process integrated into the overall workflow.

Finally we got a nice demo of Copado Robotic Testing, the testing solution which is built into the platform.

For more information about Copado please visit their website at https://copado.com.

In this episode I get to talk to Derek Ross, a demo star from Opsera. This is a podcast series that is part of the Salesforce Devops Top Products gallery. Please be sure to check it out at https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/salesforce-devops-top-products-gallery/.

Derek gives a full demo of Opsera here. We start off with looking at how the Salesforce release management features work in detail. We then look at the workflow interface and how that works with cloud nave devops too. Then we go into details about observability and how to use information generated during devops to improve workflow.

For more information about Opsera please visit their website at https://opsera.io. I also recently completed a whitepaper on SaaS Devops sponsored by Opsera. You can get your copy of this important whitepaper at https://www.opsera.io/saas-apps-devops-whitepaper.

In this episode I go over the latest market research findings at SalesforceDevops.net. In this article https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/2022/08/16/saas-devops-grows-to-critical-importance/ I go a public equity survey where I looked at 126 public cloud companies. I analyzed the growth and the number of new companies entering the market.

Based on those observations, I predict that SaaS devops will grow to critical importance because of the number and complexity of managing SaaS systems in the future

In this episode I am running solo and giving a personal report on Salesforce TrailblazerDX 2022 show in San Francisco. I also have detailed information on the latest product announcements on Slack and Salesforce DevOps Center. I report on an interview I had with the product manager and give you the scoop on what to expect.

https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/2022/04/27/salesforce-devops-center-public-beta-due-in-june/

https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/2022/04/27/salesforce-trailblazerdx-2022-opens-with-flow-slack-mulesoft-and-tableau-news/