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MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers

By : Arul Christhuraj Alphonse, Alexandra Martinez, Akshata Sawant
Book Image

MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers

By: Arul Christhuraj Alphonse, Alexandra Martinez, Akshata Sawant

Overview of this book

MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers will help you build state-of-the-art enterprise solutions with flexible and scalable integration capabilities using MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform and Anypoint Studio. If you’re a Salesforce developer looking to get started with this useful tool, look no further. This book will get you up to speed in no time, leveling up your integration developer skills. This essential guide will first introduce you to the fundamentals of MuleSoft and API-led connectivity, before walking you through the API life cycle and the Anypoint Studio IDE. Once you have the IDE set up, you’ll be ready to create Mule applications. You’ll look at the core components of MuleSoft and Anypoint Platform, and before long you’ll know how to build, transform, secure, test, and deploy applications using the wide range of components available to you. Finally, you’ll learn about using connectors to integrate MuleSoft with Salesforce and to fulfill a number of use cases, which will be covered in depth, along with interview and certification tips. By the end of this book, you will be confident building MuleSoft integrations at an enterprise scale and be able to gain the fundamental MuleSoft certification – MCD.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1:Getting Started with MuleSoft
7
Part 2: A Deep Dive into MuleSoft
14
Part 3: Integration with Salesforce and Other Connectors

Building a CI/CD pipeline with MuleSoft

In the previous sections, we learned about the steps involved with manual deployment. In order to make deployment hassle-free and enable a faster release, we can automate the deployment process with the help of CI and CD.

This involves building a pipeline with predefined tasks to continuously build, test, and deploy our Mule application (see Figure 9.25). It automates the deployment process with or without any manual interventions.

Figure 9.25 – The CI/CD process

To enable the CI/CD pipeline with a Mule application, we need to configure the Mule Maven plugin in pom.xml.

The Mule Maven plugin

This helps you to build and deploy a Mule application in various deployment environments. You can leverage the capabilities of Maven to perform different operations. The Mule Maven plugin has mainly three goals, namely package, deploy, and mule:deploy/mule:undeploy.

You need to enter deployment details in pom...