Opsera, an independent software vendor based in San Francisco, today announced support for Salesforce release management as part of its low-code, multi-cloud DevOps platform. “Opsera provides choice, flexibility and out-of-the-box integrations, and a common architectural framework to automate end-to-end software delivery management across Salesforce, software delivery life cycle, and infrastructure as code to deliver features faster, safer and reduce overall management cost,” said Kumar Chivukula, CTO and co-founder of Opsera in a press release.
Opsera does not have the background of a typical Salesforce ISV. Instead of coming from a Salesforce background, the company was founded in early 2020 by two Silicon Valley veterans from Uber and Symantec. The company is on the VC fast track, having received a $15-Million Series-A equity investment in April 2021, which is just 15 months after being founded.
One way to think about Opsera is that they want to be the “Zapier of DevOps.” Opsera does for people involved in DevOps what Zapier did for data integration, enabling a drag-and-drop graphical user interface that makes it easier for regular businesspeople to connect multiple systems.
Using a low-code system to set up a DevOps pipeline is appealing, especially in the Salesforce ecosystem where many more low-code-competent workers exist than experienced DevOps engineers.
Opsera already works with dozens of DevOps products and services, including Kubernetes, GCP, Azure Cloud, AWS, OpenShift, Datadog, Selenium, NPM, and many other lower-level services. The platform includes observability features, like metrics consoles during the DevOps process, providing a cohesive approach to metrics compared to other Salesforce DevOps products.
The new Salesforce features include support for pipelines based on SFDX-CLI or Apache ANT. Opsera supports GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories, automatically launching release pipelines upon commits. Additional features include unit test management, application security testing scans, regression testing, and Jira integration.
This announcement and product demo show that Opsera is adding Salesforce-specific enhancements to their DevOps toolkit, bringing robust pipeline management to more Salesforce orgs.