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- 1. DevOps Center Low-code change and release management for everyone Katherine Monita, Principal Technical Architect kmonita@salesforce.com She/Her
- 2. Forward Looking Statements This presentation contains forward-looking statements about, among other things, trend analyses and future events, future financial performance, anticipated growth, industry prospects, environmental, social and governance goals, and the anticipated benefits of acquired companies. The achievement or success of the matters covered by such forward-looking statements involves risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If any such risks or uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions prove incorrect, Salesforce’s results could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties referred to above include those factors discussed in Salesforce’s reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to: impact of, and actions we may take in response to, the COVID-19 pandemic, related public health measures and resulting economic downturn and market volatility; our ability to maintain security levels and service performance meeting the expectations of our customers, and the resources and costs required to avoid unanticipated downtime and prevent, detect and remediate performance degradation and security breaches; the expenses associated with our data centers and third-party infrastructure providers; our ability to secure additional data center capacity; our reliance on third-party hardware, software and platform providers; the effect of evolving domestic and foreign government regulations, including those related to the provision of services on the Internet, those related to accessing the Internet, and those addressing data privacy, cross-border data transfers and import and export controls; current and potential litigation involving us or our industry, including litigation involving acquired entities such as Tableau Software, Inc. and Slack Technologies, Inc., and the resolution or settlement thereof; regulatory developments and regulatory investigations involving us or affecting our industry; our ability to successfully introduce new services and product features, including any efforts to expand our services; the success of our strategy of acquiring or making investments in complementary businesses, joint ventures, services, technologies and intellectual property rights; our ability to complete, on a timely basis or at all, announced transactions; our ability to realize the benefits from acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures and investments, including our July 2021 acquisition of Slack Technologies, Inc., and successfully integrate acquired businesses and technologies; our ability to compete in the markets in which we participate; the success of our business strategy and our plan to build our business, including our strategy to be a leading provider of enterprise cloud computing applications and platforms; our ability to execute our business plans; our ability to continue to grow unearned revenue and remaining performance obligation; the pace of change and innovation in enterprise cloud computing services; the seasonal nature of our sales cycles; our ability to limit customer attrition and costs related to those efforts; the success of our international expansion strategy; the demands on our personnel and infrastructure resulting from significant growth in our customer base and operations, including as a result of acquisitions; our ability to preserve our workplace culture, including as a result of our decisions regarding our current and future office environments or work-from-home policies; our dependency on the development and maintenance of the infrastructure of the Internet; our real estate and office facilities strategy and related costs and uncertainties; fluctuations in, and our ability to predict, our operating results and cash flows; the variability in our results arising from the accounting for term license revenue products; the performance and fair value of our investments in complementary businesses through our strategic investment portfolio; the impact of future gains or losses from our strategic investment portfolio, including gains or losses from overall market conditions that may affect the publicly traded companies within our strategic investment portfolio; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; our ability to develop our brands; the impact of foreign currency exchange rate and interest rate fluctuations on our results; the valuation of our deferred tax assets and the release of related valuation allowances; the potential availability of additional tax assets in the future; the impact of new accounting pronouncements and tax laws; uncertainties affecting our ability to estimate our tax rate; uncertainties regarding our tax obligations in connection with potential jurisdictional transfers of intellectual property, including the tax rate, the timing of the transfer and the value of such transferred intellectual property; uncertainties regarding the effect of general economic and market conditions; the impact of geopolitical events; uncertainties regarding the impact of expensing stock options and other equity awards; the sufficiency of our capital resources; the ability to execute our Share Repurchase Program; our ability to comply with our debt covenants and lease obligations; the impact of climate change, natural disasters and actual or threatened public health emergencies; and our ability to achieve our aspirations, goals and projections related to our environmental, social and governance initiatives. Updated: September 28, 2022
- 3. Katherine Monita “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” - Oprah Winfrey My Area of Expertise is: Core Application Architecture, DevOps, Platform Health, Business Value, Enablement My Background: 8+ years in the Salesforce ecosystem, solution architect and delivery team lead as a customer, business analyst, Salesforce admin My Favorite VTO Activities: ● Brain Cancer Research - $40k raised over the last 5 years, completed the NYC and Chicago marathon with different organizations ● SA Food Bank - VTO Coordinator for SA Salesforce Employees Fun Facts about me: ● I have been skydiving 5 times ● I have visited 28 states but am working on all 50! ● I have never broken a bone Current Role: Technical Architect Team: MAE Commercial Location: San Antonio, TX Geo/Region: AMER Hometown: San Antonio, TX Education: ● Wagner College (BS) ● St. John’s University (MBA) Start Year: 2019 Tenure: 3 years Certifications: 11x Certified, incl. Application Architect Hobbies: Reading, DIY Projects, Peloton, Running
- 4. Deployment Frequency Lead Time to Change Change Failure Rate DevOps Success Has Never Been More Critical Businesses are focused on delivering more value to their stakeholders, faster Time to Restore Service How often do you deploy to production? How long to go from code to deploy? What % of deploys need a rollback or hotfix? How long does it take to resolve a problem?
- 5. NEW INNOVATION Slow & Costly Deployments Governance and Change Management Data Security & Governance Lack of Team Collaboration YOUR IT TEAM But IT Faces Several Barriers to Agility Source: 2022 MuleSoft IT Leaders Pulse Report Lack of Open and Flexible Modern Tooling Often leading to delays in new features 92% of IT leaders say current processes slow down innovation
- 6. DevOps Center Modern, low-code change & release management for everyone Track changes with a modern UI View automatically tracked changes; track changes across the lifecycle through associated work item Seamlessly integrate with version control Collaborate with team members and orchestrate changes between source control branches, and orgs Move changes across environments with clicks Migrate changes through development, review, test, and production environments with confidence and ease Work with hybrid teams Commit changes, create PRs, merge branches, deploy from the UI, CLI, and/or VCS and project stays in sync 30% faster deployment 28% increase in dev productivity Now GA! Source: 2022 Salesforce Customer Success Metrics for IT
- 7. Build, Test, and Release Safely with DevOps Center DevOps Center is the heart of Salesforce ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) CLI for development and integration with 3rd party editors Development Environments: Scratch Orgs, Dev/Dev Pro Sandboxes Test Environments: Partial & Full Sandboxes Secured with Data Mask Builders (Code, App, Flow, Schema) and Wizards IDEs, Text Editors, Language Services Continuous Integration (CI) / Test Automation Continuous Delivery (CD) / Release Automation Unlocked Packages PLAN CODE MERGE & TEST TEST & UAT RELEASE DEVOPS CENTER
- 8. Declarative DevOps Experience for Salesforce End-to-end management of Salesforce development pipelines Migrate Changes across testing environments with clicks, not code Modern best practices like Source Control, Testing, CI/CD for everyone One single UI for managing changes, test pipelines and work items Declarative and Programmatic users collaborating using the tools of their choice Declarative Experience Democratized DevOps Single View of Changes Hybrid Teams
- 9. Feature 2 Main Staging Integrate Feature 1 Req’t/ Ticket Do Dev Test Change ID/ Commit Change Peer Review Integrate Test in Integration Env Stage Test in Staging Env Release Plan Code Test (Integration, UAT) Test (Staging) Release PR git pull deploy <or> package install git pull deploy <or> package install git pull deploy <or> package install source:pull git push git pull deploy git pull deploy Overview of Salesforce Development Process Dev Org (Sandbox or Scratch Org) Dev Org (Sandbox or Scratch Org) Prod Org Integration Org (Sandbox) Staging Org (Sandbox) Review Org (SBX or Scratch) Review Org (SBX or Scratch) Review Org (SBX or Scratch) Dev Org (Sandbox or Scratch Org) Work Tracking tool of choice
- 10. Make Changes in Dev Env Identify & Commit Changes Test, Review, Merge Changes Deploy to UAT (Test) Deploy to Prod Define Requirements • List of changes needed represented as Work Items • Changes are associated with Work item throughout development lifecycle
- 11. • Development Sandbox authorized and launched directly from DevOps Center Make Changes in Dev Env Identify & Commit Changes Test, Review, Merge Changes Deploy to UAT (Test) Deploy to Prod Define Requirements
- 12. • Changes automatically tracked • Select changes to commit and push to source control system Make Changes in Dev Env Identify & Commit Changes Test, Review, Merge Changes Deploy to UAT (Test) Deploy to Prod Define Requirements
- 13. • Pull Request created to facilitate review and testing • Collaboration through review comments • Approve changes before promoting to next stage Make Changes in Dev Env Identify & Commit Changes Test, Review, Merge Changes Deploy to UAT (Test) Deploy to Prod Define Requirements
- 14. • Changes promoted from one stage to the next in pipeline • Each stage corresponds to an org and a branch in the VCS • Promote individual work items or versioned change bundles Make Changes in Dev Env Identify & Commit Changes Test, Review, Merge Changes Deploy to UAT (Test) Deploy to Prod Define Requirements
- 15. Make Changes in Dev Env Identify & Commit Changes Test, Review, Merge Changes Deploy to UAT (Test) Deploy to Prod Define Requirements • Changes promoted from one stage to the next in pipeline • Each stage corresponds to an org and a branch in the VCS • Promote individual work items or versioned change bundles
- 17. Can be installed at no additional cost in production orgs with editions: Professional (with API enabled) Enterprise Unlimited Developer Trailhead Playground Also scratch orgs Users need at minimum Identity or Free Limited Access license in org where DevOps Center is installed Access
- 18. All changes tracked through lifecycle via Work Item Automatic change tracking Select any metadata Conflict detection Delete metadata Ignore files using .forceignore Change work item status to Never Change Management
- 19. Each project is associated with a repository in the source control system Each work item is associated with a feature branch; each stage is associated with a unique branch Commit Changes to work item feature branch from work item Pull Request created as part of Review process Branch management/merging orchestrated by DevOps Center Source Control Integration
- 20. Pull Request created for Review Toggle “Ready to Promote” in DevOps Center to proceed after approval GitHub mergeability checks honored by DevOps Center Review and Approval
- 21. Configurable pipeline; Each stage = Env (org) + Branch Promotion = Merge + Deploy “Delta deploy” by default Bundling Validate-only/Quick deploy Activity History Deploys performed using authenticated user’s credentials Deploy/Release Management
- 22. Connect once, use securely throughout experience Development environment synchronization Reconciliation of refreshed sandboxes (Swap environment) Environment Management
- 23. DevOps Center listens to GitHub events, reflects result, keeps things in sync Work Item feature branch creation Commits to Work Item feature branch Pull Request creation Merged Pull Requests CLI plugin >sf deploy pipeline Hybrid/Fusion Flows More details: "Why DevOps Center is Great for Teams" blog post
- 24. Packaging
- 25. Access DevOps Center Today Setup is simple and hassle free Can be installed at no additional cost in production orgs with editions: ● Professional (with API enabled) ● Enterprise ● Unlimited ● Developer ● Trailhead Playground ● Also scratch orgs Users need at minimum Identity or Free Limited Access license in org where DevOps Center is installed
- 26. Roadmap
- 27. Post-GA Roadmap Strategy Adoption Blockers Source control integrations Key Usability Enhancements Increased control in pipeline Scaled usage Application Extensibility Support for partners and customers to extend Support for cross-cloud (C360 DX) Additional Integrations Integrations with more tools Increased customization options More Users with Core Capabilities → More Capabilities, More Users
- 28. DevOps Center Public Roadmap View the live roadmap and provide feedback! View live roadmap link for latest! https://github.com/orgs/forcedotcom/projects/4
- 29. ● Integration with GitHub ● Change Tracking ● Click-based Promotion ● Hybrid flows ● Compatibility with existing CI/CD ● Conflict detection ● Delete metadata ● Dev environment sync High Level Roadmap for DevOps Center DevOps Center roadmap themes ● Add’l VCS support ○ Bitbucket ○ GitLab ○ Azure ○ On-premise ● Work management tool integration ○ JIRA ○ Agile Accelerator ● Built-in CI/CD ● Rollback ● Hotfix ● Improved extensibility ● Package-based flows ● Code Builder integration ● Test tools integration ● Configurable approvals ● Post-deploy actions ● Slack integration ○ Notifications ○ ChatOps ● C360 DevOps GA High priority post-GA Later post-GA
- 31. DevOps Center at a Glance ~~ Based upon a foundation of Source Control, facilitating a single source of truth ~~ End-to-end experience for development, change, and release mgmt process Driving strong Governance across the Application Lifecycle Management process Robust, modern alternative to change sets Collaboration across hybrid teams using modern best practices and tools of their choice
- 32. Improved, Modern Alternative to Change Sets Poor UX Need to recreate change sets for each stage Not all metadata supported Not connected to source control Incompatible with SFDX Hard to manage and track releases Metadata deployed from single source of truth Broader metadata support, including standard objects Seamless integration with source control Leverages SFDX project and source format Visual, managed pipeline. Work item. Modern UI, automatic change tracking Change Sets
- 33. DevOps Principles Collaboration Team design, review, visibility Change Mgmt Who/what/when/why on changes made, merging changes Source Control Single source of truth everyone works against, reduces conflicts, drives collaboration Release Mgmt How do I deploy and release safely and confidently Robust and modern development lifecycle process Env, Test Strategy Develop and test changes safely, outside of production Automation Repeatability, reduce errors, eliminate manual tasks
- 34. Principles Apply Across The Entire Spectrum From Clicks To Code
- 35. Get Started with Salesforce DevOps Today! Learn how DevOps practices can help you release changes faster Join the DevOps Center Trailblazer Community Group: http://sforce.co/community-group Explore DevOps Center Documentation: https://developer.salesforce.com/developer-centers/devops See DevOps Center In Action: http://sforce.co/devops-video Learn Salesforce Agile Practices Determine Which ALM Model is Right for You Simplify Your Development Process with Continuous Integration
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