SuiteCloud Development Framework (SDF)
NetSuite's version-controlled deployment system for pushing customisations, scripts, and configuration from a development sandbox to production.
SuiteCloud Development Framework (SDF) is the toolchain for deploying NetSuite customisations in a structured, repeatable, version-controlled way. Instead of making configuration changes directly in production, developers work in an SDF project (a local directory structure), commit changes to version control (Git), and deploy to NetSuite accounts using the SDF CLI or an IDE plugin.
An SDF project can contain SuiteScript files, custom record types, custom fields, saved searches, workflows, and configuration objects. When deployed, SDF applies all these in order, making the deployment process repeatable and reviewable. This is the professional standard for NetSuite development; ad-hoc changes directly in production are the primary cause of untraceable customisation debt.
SDF also supports multi-environment deployments: develop in Sandbox, test in a Release Preview environment, deploy to Production. Combined with a pull request review process, this creates a proper software development lifecycle for NetSuite customisations.
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