If you have always worked in Salesforce, then it’s quite possible that Docker containers sound alien to you. Bitbucket Pipelines - Bitbucket Pipelines is an add-on for Bitbucket cloud that will allow us to kick off deployments and validations when updates are made to the branches in Bitbucket.So, we will be using it to create an environment for running a Migration tool. Docker - Docker provides a way to run applications securely, packaged with all its dependencies and libraries.These are used for approving and merging changes. It provides a UI to navigate the GIT repository and has many additional features like pull requests.
Source control facilitates code traceability and accountability as well as enable code reviews. Traditionally, we use Ant Migration Tool on our local system to perform deployments, but these problems raise an important question - if you want to build for the cloud, why not build in the cloud? Package.xml creation and maintenance as well as removal of invalid manifest items from it.Deployment errors cropping in every time we migrate the codebase from sandbox to sandbox until it reaches the production environment.Change tracking, prevention of code overriding, and monitoring the evolution of codebase.Some challenges come up during Salesforce project delivery. Sounds dreamy, right? Using Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) tools in your project can make this dream a reality. What if we could automate SRM and catch errors while deploying it to all environments seamlessly? Salesforce Release Management using Ant Migration Tool (ANT) can be cumbersome and time-consuming, especially when there are crucial go-live deadlines to reach.