Salesforce DevOps Center

Salesforce DevOps Center is a free salesforce devops tool that helps IT teams build and deploy software applications using DevOps best practices. It's designed for hybrid teams, including those with developers of different skill levels, and allows developers and builders to work together to deliver value to customers in a repeatable and scalable way. Please refer to the trailhead link FYR.

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As it is within the salesforce all the security measures of the app/data/metadata will be handled through Salesforce only without any extra license cost.

DevOps Center provides the following additional productivity enhancements and features in salesforce over primitive Devops process writing CI/CD pipeline as Out of Box solution

• Work item: Defines the requirement for the change to be made and tracks the associated metadata source files through the release lifecycle. Work items increase visibility regarding where changes reside in each pipeline stage.

• Conflict management: Identifies work items that have conflicts with other work items in the pipeline. Provides information to help you resolve the conflict.

• Dev environment synchronization: Detects when a development environment is out of date so you can ensure that you’re working against the latest source of truth. Tells you what’s different, and enables you to synchronize it to avoid future conflicts.

• Activity history: Provides increased visibility, auditability, and error tracking in both work item and pipeline views.

• Ability to delete metadata: Removes the component from the target stages, leveraging the Metadata API destructive changes functionality. Validation-only deployments: Enables you to run a validation-only deployment, and, at a later time, perform a quick deployment.

DevOps Center: Quick Look Establish modern DevOps best practices with a centralized, point-and-click interface.

it has a strong community-

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here is the step by step how to install -

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