Best Practices and References
In this chapter, we focus on the optimal posture for continuous delivery in the cloud to maximize business efficiency. Often, best practices are the result of tasks, processes, and tools implemented by various teams over a period of time that led to them experiencing substantial increases in efficiency. Although we discussed many of the best practices in the previous chapters, we will summarize them here and also provide references to them.
This chapter covers the following topics:
- Establishing and adopting best practices
- End-to-end responsibility
- Developing in a cloud-friendly way
- Delivery best practices
- Security best practices
- More best practices
- Case studies
Often, best practices are adopted to achieve specific business outcomes. In some cases, best practices can also be contractually binding and can even be required by regulatory bodies. Before we start to describe the best practices, it is important to understand...