How does Lifecycle Center work in Salesforce?
Lifecycle Center is the current name for DevOps Center (Salesforce Help calls it "formerly next-generation DevOps Center"). A work item records the requirements for one change and follows it through the release. A pipeline is the ordered list of stages, and each stage maps to an org and a Git branch.
The current version needs no managed package and is set up from the App Launcher. Help lists GitHub and Bitbucket for source control. Lifecycle Center Governance, a beta, checks the actions of users and coding agents against policies and blocks the ones that break a rule. Lifecycle Center comes with supported editions, with Salesforce noting that some AI features may use paid credits. If change sets are too slow for you but Gearset or Copado feel like too much, try this first.