Sandbox Pool Initialization

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Availability	✅	❌
From	September '24

The sfp pool sandbox init command is used to create and initialize a pool of Salesforce sandboxes.

Usage

sfp pool sandbox init -f <path/to/config-file> -v <devhub-alias> -r <owner/repo>

Flags

• -f, --poolconfig=<path>: Path to the sandbox pool configuration file (default: 'config/sandbox-pool-config.json')

• -v, --targetdevhubusername=<devhub-alias>: Alias of the target Dev Hub org

• -r, --repo=<owner/repo>: GitHub repository in the format owner/repo

Configuration File

The configuration file should be a JSON file containing an array of pool configurations. Each configuration should include:

[
  {
    "pool": "DEV",
    "count": 3,
    "sourceSB": "production",
    "branch": "develop",
    "defaultExpirationHours": 24,
    "extendedExpirationHours": 24,
    "averageOrgCreationTime": 2
  }
]

• pool: Name of the sandbox pool (will be converted to uppercase)

• count: Number of sandboxes to create for this pool

• sourceSB: Source sandbox name (use 'production' for creating from scratch)

• branch: Git branch associated with this pool

• defaultExpirationHours: (Optional) Default expiration time in hours (default: 24)

• extendedExpirationHours: (Optional) Extended expiration time in hours (default: 24)

• averageOrgCreationTime: (Optional) Average time in hours for sandbox creation (default: 2)

Process

1. Reads the configuration file

2. Authenticates with GitHub

3. Creates sandboxes for each pool configuration

4. Sets up GitHub repository variables for tracking sandboxes

Example

sfp pool sandbox init -f config/my-sandbox-pools.json -v my-devhub -r myorg/myrepo

This command initializes sandbox pools as defined in my-sandbox-pools.json, using the Dev Hub 'my-devhub', and creates corresponding variables in the GitHub repository 'myorg/myrepo'.