Fun with

“Jenkins & Salesforce”

Who I am ?

● Abhinav Gupta● Salesforce MVP & Architect.● In love with Salesforce since

2008.● Founder of Concretio Apps,

ISV and PDO Partner.● t: @abhinavguptas

Agenda

Credits : http://www.jimcarreyonline.com/

Agenda - Real :-)

1. Overview of Jenkins & Force.com Migration Tool.

2. Code versioning practices.3. How could we improve ?4. Automating the same via Jenkins

What is Jenkins

Credits: https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/about

Force.com Migration Tool

Credits: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.daas.meta/daas/

Code Versioning Practices

How mostly devs do

Manual Folder Backups

- Folder is created out of Force.com IDE downloads- Date is added to timestamp along with client name

What’s the problem in it ?

- It sucks :( - Not backed up on server/cloud/hosting- No way for multiple devs to collaborate- No easy way to figure out change log.- It’s depressing and scares me a lot, really :-/

How it could be better ?

● Use Force.com Migration Tool○ It will simplify metadata download○ Mostly one line command, after build.xml setup○ Requires least coding knowledge, mostly a simple

xml editing skill is required.● Use GIT

○ Many git hostings i.e. github, bitbucket etc are available

○ Can work well with Force.com migration tool.

Even Better World ?

● Use Jenkins !○ Its free and open source○ Openshift and other providers offer Free hostings. ○ It can work well with Force.com migration tool○ It works like charm with GIT○ Automate simple nightly code backups.○ Once comfortable, use it like PRO, and do multi

org/sandbox strategy with your clients.

Live Demo

● A Simple nightly code back Job on Jenkins● Auto checkout of required metadata ● Auto commit+push into GIT (bitbucket

private repo)● Hosted for free on https://www.openshift.

com/

Jenkins Job Overview

A simple job for metadata backup in GIT

Jenkins Job Overview

Runs periodically at 3 AM India Time, when even most messed up developer is slept

Masked Passwords PluginPasswords are no more visible after entry, not even in console (ssh could be even better for GIT)Jenkins Plugin: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Mask+Passwords+Plugin

Clone Project GIT repo

Clone repo if it’s not already done

Create build.xml on the fly

We don’t want to version build.xml, and want it easy to tweak, thus generate on the flyJenkins Plugin: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Text+File+Operations+Plugin

Create package.xml on the flyWe don’t want to version package.xml, and want it easy to tweak, thus generate on the fly(Add more metadata types(triggers, objects, etc) to package.xml, it’s kept simple for quick downloads)Jenkins Plugin: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Text+File+Operations+Plugin

Fetch Salesforce metadata

Use Force.com Migration Tool (ANT)to fetch required Salesforce metadata (as per package.xml)

Push into GIT

Push fetched Metadata into GIT. Git ANT tasks could be used here to do the same.

Code reviews Once code is in bitbucket or github online repo, peer/architect code reviews can be conducted on commits. It’s quite easy to point out a single line of code having issue, and describe what is needed (way better than word docs, or excel spreadsheets).

Q & A

Thanks

Abhinav Guptat: @abhinavguptas