CI/CD
Automatically building, testing, and shipping Salesforce changes as they're committed, instead of batching big releases.
Definition
CI/CD, continuous integration and continuous delivery (or deployment), is the practice of automatically building, testing, and shipping code changes as they're committed, instead of batching work into large, infrequent, manually-run releases. For Salesforce specifically, CI/CD means metadata changes get automatically validated, and often deployed, against sandboxes as they're committed.
In practice, a commit triggers a build against a fresh scratch org, Apex tests run to confirm test coverage holds, and the change deploys onward only if both pass. Salesforce has no native CI/CD product, so teams assemble pipelines from Salesforce CLI, scratch orgs, and a general-purpose CI runner like GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins, wiring the pieces together with YAML scripts tied to a Git branching strategy.
This gives full flexibility but real setup cost, and pipelines built by one engineer often become a maintenance burden if that person leaves. Our Salesforce DevOps guide compares purpose-built and script-based CI/CD approaches for Salesforce.
How it works in Serpent
Serpent gives Salesforce teams CI/CD without YAML or a separate CI runner: pipelines are built visually in the UI, triggering builds, tests, and deployments automatically as tasks move through review. There's no pipeline script to maintain and no single engineer who's the only one who understands how releases actually run. Because it's native to Serpent rather than bolted onto a general-purpose CI tool, Salesforce-specific steps like scratch org provisioning and Apex test scoping are built in from the start. See no-code CI/CD in Serpent for the full pipeline builder.
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