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Strategizing Continuous Delivery in the Cloud

By : Garima Bajpai, Thomas Schuetz
Book Image

Strategizing Continuous Delivery in the Cloud

By: Garima Bajpai, Thomas Schuetz

Overview of this book

Many organizations are embracing cloud technology to remain competitive, but implementing and adopting development processes while modernizing a cloud-based ecosystem can be challenging. Strategizing Continuous Delivery in Cloud helps you modernize continuous delivery and achieve infrastructure-application convergence in the cloud. You’ll learn the differences between cloud-based and traditional delivery approaches and develop a tailored strategy. You’ll discover how to secure your cloud delivery environment, ensure software security, run different test types, and test in the pre-production and production stages. You’ll also get to grips with the prerequisites for onboarding cloud-based continuous delivery for organizational and technical aspects. Then, you’ll explore key aspects of readiness to overcome core challenges in your cloud journey, including GitOps, progressive delivery controllers, feature flagging, differences between cloud-based and traditional tools, and implementing cloud chaos engineering. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to select the right cloud environment and technologies for CD and be able to explore techniques for implementing CD in the cloud.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Foundation and Preparation for Continuous Delivery in the Cloud
6
Part 2: Implementing Continuous Delivery
11
Part 3: Best Practices and the Way Ahead

Making the pipelines secure

Pipelines/workflows are a fundamental part of a CI/CD infrastructure. As we discussed earlier, we must know what is running and what we’re building. To proceed with our example, let’s take a look at the following pipeline:

Figure 8.2 – Example pipeline

Figure 8.2 – Example pipeline

This is kind of a different view of the system we’ve seen before, but this one is more focused on the pipeline. As you can see, we have the following building blocks:

  • Continuous integration and templating: In this step, we are building our application and creating the deployment artifacts. Furthermore, we are creating the infrastructure templates that are used to deploy our application.
  • IaC: In this step, we are deploying our infrastructure using the infrastructure templates.
  • Continuous delivery: In this step, we are deploying our application to the infrastructure that we created in the previous step.

In each of these steps, different...