Sandbox Pools
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Sandbox pools in sfp are designed to provide instantly available Salesforce environments for development, testing, and review processes. By maintaining a pool of pre-created sandboxes, teams can significantly reduce wait times and streamline their development workflows.
Immediate Availability: Eliminate waiting times for sandbox creation, allowing developers to start work instantly.
Reduced Overhead: Minimize the administrative burden of creating and managing individual sandboxes for each task.
Consistent Environment: Ensure all team members work with standardized, pre-configured sandbox environments.
Seamless Integration: Easily incorporate sandbox allocation into automated CI/CD pipelines and development workflows.
The following diagram illustrates the lifecycle of a sandbox within a pool:
Initializes sandbox pools based on configuration files.
Fetches an available sandbox from a pool and assigns it to an issue.
Monitors sandbox status, handles activations, expirations, and deletions.
The sfp sandbox monitor command is designed to be run as a continuous cron job. This ensures that:
Newly created sandboxes are activated promptly.
Expired sandboxes are identified and marked for deletion.
Marked sandboxes are deleted, freeing up resources.
The pool is kept in a healthy state, always ready for use.
It's recommended to set up this command to run at regular intervals (e.g., every 15-30 minutes) to maintain an up-to-date and efficient sandbox pool.
For detailed information on each command and the expiration process, please refer to the individual command documentation.