An overview of Copado

Copado provides an end-to-end platform for developing in Salesforce using DevOps principles and practices. As a native app built on the Salesforce platform, Copado aims to address gaps in the core Salesforce product that inhibit effective continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). This overview will detail Copado’s underlying data model, key technical capabilities, and administration based on its publicly available documentation.

Copado allows teams to implement DevOps workflows entirely within Salesforce without the extensive use of external tools. It integrates version control, build automation, testing, and deployment while retaining native reporting and process visibility. The platform centers around a core abstraction layer that handles much of the complexity of tasks, such as branch management, automatically.

Platform

Copado utilizes a user-story-centered data model, that is to say, a deployment model centered around user stories, to associate...