Presented at French Touch Dreamin 2019. This topic is to show you the key elements to take care of in order to deliver Salesforce projects successfully, taking the advantages of the latest Salesforce tools.

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CI/CD – A Strategy for success
Yassine El Qandili
10x Salesforce Certified Application Architect / Tech Lead @ Accenture Belgium
/in/yassineelqandili/
y.elqandili1@gmail.com

2. Why CI/CD ?
What is Continuous integration & Continuous Delivery/Deployment ?
How to do CI/CD ?
• Sandbox Strategy
• Delivery pipelines
• Branching Strategy
• Salesforce DX
Agenda
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3. Why CI/CD ?

4. CI : Continuous Integration
Small Changes
Frequent code check in from VCS
Automatic package, build & test
CD :
Continuous Delivery: Manual trigger
deployment to production
Continuous Deployment : Automatic
Deploy to production environment
Build Unit Tests
Deploy to
staging
Acceptance
tests
What is CI/CD ?
Manual
Build Unit Tests
Deploy to
staging
Acceptance
tests
Deploy to QA
Deploy to
Prod/Training
Build Unit Tests
Deploy to
staging
Acceptance
tests
Deploy to QA
Deploy to
Prod/Training
Auto

5. Align Design Implement
1st Step 2nd Step 3rd Step
Technically implement & document the
solution
Train your team on the new WoW
Align business objective with the
technical implementation
Create a repository of existing tools
Design deployment flows & release
cycles to respond to business challenges
Make a choice on the tool stack
How ?

6. CI Server
Dev Sandbox
Dev Sandbox
Dev Sandbox
CI Sandbox QA Sandbox
Production HotFix
How ? – Sandbox Strategy
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Build
Unit Test
Integration TestReview &
Approve
Auto Test
Deploy
Continuous DeliveryContinuous Integration
Scratch Org
Scratch Org
Scratch Org
Scratch Org
Scratch Org

7. Development UAT Production
How ? – Delivery Pipelines
Development SIT UAT Production
Development Merge SIT UAT
Performance
Testing
Staging Production

8. How ? – Branching Strategy
Master
QA
Develop
Feature 01
Feature 02

9. How ? – Implement
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Salesforce DX
Salesforce CLI
Source Format vs Metadata Source ?
Tool stack
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10. Salesforce DX

11. Powerful Command Line Interface
Perform commands against your Salesforce Org
Synch code from your org
Create and manage orgs
Import & Export Data
Create and execute tests
Create and Install Packages
Salesforce CLI

12. Metadata Format vs Source Format

13. • VS Code: Free & Open
Source IDE
• Salesforce Extensions
• CLI
• Apex & Apex Debuggers
• LWC, Aura Components
& Visual Force
• GitLens
Tool Stack – VS Code, Salesforce Extensions & GitLens

14. Endless
Possibilities
Tool Stack – CI Tools

15. Happy Development team
Happy functional team
Happy Product owner
Happy sponsors & stakeholders
Happy users
Happy Customers
Happyness

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Thank you !
Yassine El Qandili
10x Salesforce Certified Application Architect / Tech Lead @ Accenture Belgium
/in/yassineelqandili/
y.elqandili1@gmail.com

17. Algoworks
Q & A
Yassine El Qandili
10x Salesforce Certified Application Architect / Tech Lead @ Accenture Belgium
/in/yassineelqandili/
y.elqandili1@gmail.com