💃 Peek into a Salesforce prod ready Gearset pipeline🕺

Good morning, Salesforce Nerds! We've talked before about Gearset in comparison to change sets. While I'm sure it's easy to spot the major benefits of visibility, rollbacks, speed, etc. it may be less easy to see how to dip your toes into CI/CD using their Pipelines feature. So let's break it down here and look at an example pipeline.

Agenda for today includes

• What is CI/CD

• Prod Ready Pipeline

• Daily Principle

• All the Memes

What is CI/CD?

Before we move on we all need a basic understand of what CI/CD is. First, it's important to understand this is not just a Salesforce thing, but rather a concept adhered to by the broader software engineering community. However, since we're all Salesforce nerds here we're going to check it out from our perspective.

Back in the day, teams would build their features in isolation, sometimes without any knowledge of what their teammates were working on. Then toward the end of a project there was an integration phase where everyone's changes would be placed into the same environment for the first time and promptly tested to make sure it all plays nicely together. As you can imagine this had the potential for bad things to happen.