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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

More best practices

Most cloud providers have their own best practices for DevOps and continuous delivery. These best practices are usually based on the experience of the cloud provider and are great resources to find out more about how to implement processes in the respective cloud. Here we present to you a few public best practices to help you craft your own journey toward continuous delivery with the cloud:

  • AWS Well-Architected Framework/AWS DevOps Best Practices
  • Azure DevOps Best Practices
  • GCP DevOps Best Practices

Furthermore, the CDF has a best practices website (https://bestpractices.cd.foundation) with lots of best-practice resources for continuous delivery covering different topics such as security, testing, monitoring, and more. These best practices are usually based on the experience of the community and are great resources to find out more about how to implement processes in your organization.