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Manage and Release Changes Easily and Collaboratively with DevOps Center
Salesforce DevOps Center provides an improved experience around change and release management that brings DevOps best practices to your development team, regardless of where you fall on the low-code to pro-code spectrum. All developers can work together to deliver value to customers in a repeatable and scalable way, whether you use declarative builders, write code in Salesforce Extensions for VS Code or Agentforce Vibes IDE, leverage the power and flexibility of Salesforce CLI, or all three.
Required Editions
| Available in: Lightning Experience in Enterprise, Performance, Professional, Unlimited, and Developer Editions |
| Available in: Government Cloud Plus as interoperable. Turning on DevOps Center in Government Cloud Plus orgs can send data outside the authorization boundary. Contact your Salesforce account executive for more details. |
| Not available in: EU Operating Zone. EU Operating zone is a special paid offering that provides an enhanced level of data residency commitment. DevOps Center is supported in orgs in the EU that aren’t part of EU OZ, per standard product terms and conditions. |
You can manage your releases from the DevOps Center point-and-click interface, or directly from the source control system, or a combination of both. Under the hood, we manage the source control branches so developers and builders can focus on development tasks.
Because all changes are captured in a source control system, you have a single source of truth for configuration and code, which improves collaboration across all functions: admins, developers, release managers, QA, and other business stakeholders.
Are you looking for an alternative to change sets based on modern development best practices? We thought so.
Check out this video, which explains how to manage and release changes in Salesforce using sandboxes and DevOps Center.
DevOps Center is available in two versions-DevOps Center (Managed Package) and next-generation DevOps Center. While the change and release management features remain the same, the next-generation of DevOps Center is built directly on the Salesforce Platform.
Next Generation DevOps Center
The next-generation DevOps Center is the new and improved DevOps Center, built with AI-powered capabilities, and a modern, extensible UI. It delivers significant improvements over the current DevOps Center (Managed Package). If you're new to DevOps Center, start with the next-generation DevOps Center. See Set Up DevOps Center.
Already Using DevOps Center (Managed Package)?
If you've already set up DevOps Center using the managed package, you can continue using it. However, we recommend you to explore the next-generation DevOps Center to take advantage of AI-powered assistance and the improved user experience. See Salesforce Help: Install and Configure DevOps Center for details.
One Collaboration Tool to Support a Variety of Roles
Working on Salesforce customizations requires various tasks by teams large and small. The degree of role specialization varies, and team members frequently have more than one role over the course of a release. The team roles that we recommend include:
- Team Manager or Project Manager
- Salesforce admin
- Low-code developer (Builder)
- Pro-code developer
- Release Manager
- Business owner
- Environments manager
- Quality Assurance Specialist
To make sure that team members have access to the features they require to do their work, we provide several DevOps Center permission sets. Your Salesforce admin (or team manager) assigns you the appropriate permissions to access DevOps Center functionality.
If you perform multiple roles and don’t have access to functionality required to do your job, talk to your team manager.
Provide General Feedback
To provide general feedback, request product enhancements, start discussions with other DevOps Center users or the product team, and share best practices, use the DevOps Center Trailblazer group.
- DevOps Center Basics
DevOps Center uses concepts that may be new to you—pipeline, branches, work items, and source control. Before setup, understand what these are, how they connect, and how DevOps Center handles most of the complexity for you. - Next Generation DevOps Center
Bring modern DevOps best practices to your team with the AI-powered, next-generation DevOps Center. Built on the principles of the existing DevOps Center, it provides a click-based user interface (UI) and serves as a central development hub where your team can collaborate. - DevOps Center (Managed Package)
After your team manager or Salesforce admin has installed and configured DevOps Center, you’ll be notified that the DevOps Center org is ready for you to log in. As part of the setup process, they created one or more projects, source control project repositories, and work items associated with each project. They also added each team member’s source-tracked development environment. - Conflict Detection and Resolution
Conflicts can occur when you’re working with multiple development environments and moving changes between multiple pipeline stages. Conflicts can take different forms, and DevOps Center provides functionality to help you identify potential conflicts early and resolve them. - DevOps Center MCP Tools
Accelerate your application lifecycle with DevOps Center MCP tools, built for DevOps Center. The Salesforce DX MCP server provides a set of DevOps Center tools that enable Large Language Models (LLMs) to securely and autonomously read, manage, and operate DevOps Center resources. - Troubleshoot DevOps Center Errors
Here are some tips if you encounter issues while using DevOps Center. If needed, get help from your team manager or Salesforce admin to resolve these issues.
