Complete Optional Setup Tasks

Complete these optional setup tasks, as needed.

• Create a .forceignore file to manage which files and directories are ignored during metadata deployments and retrievals. Some compelling reasons to create this file include:
  • Preventing unnecessary files from deploying
  • Minimizing the risk for errors and conflicts
  • Protecting sensitive information or configuration files you don’t want to deploy to the production environment
• Install the DevOps Center CLI plugin to automate deployments through your pipeline using Salesforce CLI on the command line or in scripts.
• Seed a source control repository with metadata from an org. If you don’t currently use source control, these steps guide you through retrieving your org metadata to a Salesforce DX project. Although these steps were designed and tested using a GitHub repository, they likely work using any Git-based repository.

• Determine What Metadata Types to Ignore During Development
  Your Salesforce DX project repo contains a .forceignore file that determines what metadata and files to exclude when retrieving files from development environments and deploying changes to environments in your release pipeline.
• (Optional) Install Salesforce CLI DevOps Center Plugin (Beta)
  Install the Salesforce CLI DevOps Center plugin to perform DevOps Center actions on the command line for developers who plan to work outside of DevOps Center or want to automate tasks. We plan to roll out new commands over time. The first set of commands support the ability to deploy changes to a pipeline environment and perform a validate-only deployment.
• (Optional) Seed a Source Control Repository with Org Metadata
  If you’re currently using change sets to move changes to environments in your release pipeline, it’s likely that you don’t have a source control repository that contains your production org’s metadata. Although you can approach this task in any number of ways, this method uses the Salesforce (Developer Experience) DX tools that many of you’re already familiar with. However, those of you who don’t have any experience using DX developer tools can easily follow along.