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description: Lifecycle Center brings modern application lifecycle management and release management to your whole team. Because every change is captured in source control, you get a single source of truth for your team’s changes, so admins, developers, and release managers can collaborate. Follow this learning map to set up governed development environments, coordinate work across teams, validate quality, and deploy changes predictably from development to production.
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# Get Started with Lifecycle Center

Lifecycle Center brings modern application lifecycle management and release management to your whole team. Because every change is captured in source control, you get a single source of truth for your team’s changes, so admins, developers, and release managers can collaborate. Follow this learning map to set up governed development environments, coordinate work across teams, validate quality, and deploy changes predictably from development to production.

![Lifecycle Center banner](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-devops_center-264-0-0-production-enus/166010c3-4c34-4087-92ad-aea917baf524/devops_center/images/devops_center_banner.png)

Each section maps to a stage in your DevOps journey, with curated Help, Developer, and Trailhead resources for the jobs you do at that stage. Use the map as a starting point, open the links you need, when you need them.

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            <div><img src="https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-devops_center-264-0-0-production-enus/166010c3-4c34-4087-92ad-aea917baf524/resources-global/_corporate/images/learning_maps/lm_start.png" alt="Play button in a circle"></div>
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              <strong>Get Oriented</strong>
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            <p dir="ltr">
              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.next_generation_devops_center.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Lifecycle Center (formerly next-generation DevOps Center) brings modern DevOps best practices to your team with an AI-powered, click-based user interface (UI). Built on the principles of DevOps Center (Managed Package), Lifecycle Center serves as a central development hub where your team can collaborate—with built-in governance that keeps coding agents and users safe and compliant.">Lifecycle Center</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_basics_intro.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Lifecycle Center (formerly next-generation DevOps Center) uses concepts that may be new to you—pipeline, branches, work items, and&nbsp;source control. Before setup,&nbsp;understand what these are,&nbsp;how they connect, and how Lifecycle Center handles most of the complexity for you.">Lifecycle Center Basics</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.next_gen_devops_center_get_started_by_role.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Lifecycle Center (formerly next-generation DevOps Center) supports four roles: admins, development team members, testing managers, and deployment managers. These roles collectively manage projects, code commits, quality gate rules, and pipeline promotions.">Get Started with Lifecycle Center by Role</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.next_gen_devops_center_alm_journey.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Here's a high-level overview of your Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) journey. Start by setting up Lifecycle Center (formerly next-generation DevOps Center), then build your apps in your development environment, and finally, deploy your changes with Lifecycle Center.">Application Lifecycle Management Journey with Lifecycle Center</a>
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              <a href="https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/devops-center-quick-look" target="_blank">Trailhead: DevOps Center Quick Look</a>
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              <a href="https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/salesforce-application-lifecycle-management-quick-look" target="_blank">Trailhead: Salesforce ALM Quick Look</a>
            </p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0;" dir="ltr">
              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_managed_package_to_next_gen.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="If your team recently migrated from DevOps Center (Managed Package) to Lifecycle Center, remove your existing DX Inspector connection and reconnect to Lifecycle Center so that your commits go to the right project.">Reconnect DX Inspector to Lifecycle Center</a>
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              <strong>Set Up Your Lifecycle Center Hub Org</strong>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_plan_setup.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Before you configure Lifecycle Center, plan how your team works and what your release process looks like. The decisions you make during setup, such as how many pipeline stages to create, which environments to connect, and which source control provider to use, shape how effectively Lifecycle Center works for your organization.">Plan Your Lifecycle Center Setup</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_set_your_source_control.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Configure your GitHub repository to store project files and manage team access.">Set Up GitHub as Your Source Control</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_create_project.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Create a project to serve as the central workspace for your team’s change management collaboration.">Create a Lifecycle Center Project</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_build_pipeline.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Define the sequence of stages for your release lifecycle by building a pipeline in Lifecycle Center.">Build Your Pipeline</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_governance_overview.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Lifecycle Center Governance helps you maintain control and compliance across agentic development in your organization. It automatically enforces security and compliance policies, monitors coding agent activity in real time, and prevents violations before they reach your environment.">Get Started with Lifecycle Center Governance (Beta)</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_manage_environments.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Replace or remove environments in Lifecycle Center as your project evolves. Environments are the Salesforce orgs, such as sandboxes, scratch orgs, or production orgs, connected to your Lifecycle Center pipeline. Available operations depend on the environment type and pipeline activation status.">Manage Environments</a>
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              <strong>Coordinate Work Across Teams</strong>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.next_gen_devops_center_team_member_get_started.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="After your team manager or Lifecycle Center Admin sets up Lifecycle Center, they notify you when the Lifecycle Center org is ready. As part of the setup process, they create one or more projects, pipelines, and work items. They also add each team member’s source-tracked development environment.">Get Started as a Team Member in Lifecycle Center</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_create_assign_work_items.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Use work items to track the progress of changes related to specific objectives, such as user stories or issue fixes. Work items help teams manage changes and releases by providing visibility into the status and progress of changes.">Create and Assign Work Items</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_dx_inspector.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Connect your development environment directly to your Lifecycle Center project to manage work items and track changes without leaving your org.">DX Inspector</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_integrate_agentforce_vibes.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Agentforce Vibes IDE provides a modern developer experience and comes with everything you need to work with Salesforce DX MCP Server and Lifecycle Center tools (previously DevOps Center tools). We recommend setting up Agentforce Vibes IDE if you want to experience the capabilities of the MCP server.&nbsp;">Integrate Agentforce Vibes IDE with Lifecycle Center</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_governance_overview.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Lifecycle Center Governance helps you maintain control and compliance across agentic development in your organization. It automatically enforces security and compliance policies, monitors coding agent activity in real time, and prevents violations before they reach your environment.">Get Started with Lifecycle Center Governance (Beta)</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_mcp_tools.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Accelerate your DevOps application lifecycle with Lifecycle Center MCP tools and skills. Use natural-language prompts in your IDE to interact with Lifecycle Center, or use skills to automate release workflows. MCP tools and skills simplify and standardize Lifecycle Center workflows.">Lifecycle Center MCP Tools and Skills</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_skills.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Lifecycle Center skills are reusable instruction packages that enable AI coding tools to set up, query, test, and operate Lifecycle Center according to your team's DevOps standards and workflows.">Lifecycle Center Skills</a>
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              <a href="https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.object_reference.meta/object_reference/sforce_api_objects_list.htm" target="_blank">Object Reference: Standard Objects</a>
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              <a href="https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_meta.meta/api_meta/meta_devhubsettings.htm" target="_blank">Metadata API: DevHubSettings</a>
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              <a href="https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/metadata-coverage" target="_blank">Metadata Coverage Report</a>
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              <a href="https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/salesforce-cli-reference/guide/cli_reference_devops.html" target="_blank">CLI Reference: DevOps Center Commands</a>
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              <strong>Validate Quality</strong>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_testing_setup.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Configure Lifecycle Center Testing to enforce quality at every stage of your pipeline, from the first review to the final promotion into production.">Set Up Lifecycle Center Testing</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_testing_quality_gates.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Quality gates define the pass thresholds, severity limits, and essential test requirements that changes must meet before advancing in your pipeline.">Quality Gates</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_review_changes.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="After you open a pull request in your source control repository, your team members and collaborators can add comments about the changes.">Review Changes with Team Members</a>
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              <a href="https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/salesforce-code-analyzer/guide/code-analyzer.html" target="_blank">Developer Guide: Scan Code with Salesforce Code
                Analyzer</a>
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              <a href="https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/devops-center-tests-quick-look" target="_blank">Trailhead: DevOps Center Testing Quick Look</a>
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              <strong>Deploy Changes Predictably</strong>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.next_gen_devops_center_deployment_manager_quick_start.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Promote approved work items through your pipeline stages from development to production. Coordinate releases, review test results, and ensure quality changes reach production safely. You don't require a developer background for this role.">Get Started as a Deployment Manager in Lifecycle Center</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_promote_work_items.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Move your work items through a predefined sequence of pipeline stages, guiding them from development to production.&nbsp;">Promote Work Items</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_custom_promotion.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Select and promote individual work items that are ready for the next pipeline stage by using custom promotion.">Custom Promotion</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_next_gen_resolve_conflict.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Lifecycle Center uses Agentforce to streamline conflict resolution for both low-code admins and developers. By integrating with Agentforce Vibes, Lifecycle Center provides AI-assisted guidance whether you work in the UI or the IDE.">Resolve Merge Conflicts in Lifecycle Center</a>
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            <p style="margin-bottom:0;" dir="ltr">
              <a href="https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/salesforce-cli-reference/guide/cli_reference_devops.html" target="_blank">CLI Reference: DevOps Center Commands</a>
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              <strong>Gain Insights</strong>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_activity_history.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="View a comprehensive timeline of key DevOps events, including commits, promotions, and synchronizations, to audit activity and troubleshoot errors.">Lifecycle Center Events in Activity History</a>
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              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_dora_metrics.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Track your team’s delivery speed and stability by using DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics in Lifecycle Center. These metrics help you understand how quickly work items move to production and how reliably promotions succeed. You can view metric data for up to 90 days.">Measure Project Performance with DORA Metrics</a>
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            <p style="margin-bottom:0;" dir="ltr">
              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_agentic_development.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="To track and analyze Agentforce Vibes data, enable the Agentic Development dashboard. The dashboard aggregates Agentforce Vibes activity from the last 30 days and provides analytics about AI-powered development, developer productivity metrics, and AI model utilization. Admins can filter data and analytics by Org Type or by a specific model.">Access Agentforce Vibes Usage with Agentic Development (Developer Preview)</a>
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