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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

Summary

In this chapter, we highlighted some best practices that will help you to improve your delivery process. First, we discussed what best practices are and why they are important. Then we discussed some best practices for the whole application deployment process, the delivery process, and specifically for securing your delivery process. We also discussed some best practices from cloud providers and reviewed some case studies. We hope that these best practices will help you to improve your delivery process and to achieve your goals. At this point, we want to thank the community for their contributions of best practices to this chapter. In this chapter, we also highlighted a few ways to accelerate adoption as well. Finally, it is important to continuously educate yourself and others and get buy-in for such initiatives; best practices can be improved, and continuous improvement by searching for new ways forward should never stop.

Chapter 10 will cover future trends for continuous...