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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)
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Part 1: Foundation and Preparation for Continuous Delivery in the Cloud
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Part 2: Implementing Continuous Delivery
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Part 3: Best Practices and the Way Ahead

Future Trends of Continuous Delivery

We covered many aspects of modern technologies that are constantly evolving the posture for continuous delivery (CD) in previous chapters. Through advancements, there has been substantial progress made when it comes to the stability and throughput of software delivery. Referring to the results from the State of DevOps report over a decade, organizations have adopted different aspects of CD practices starting from cloud technologies, automation, and progressive deployment.

Organizations also measure progress using different types of metrics; most of them have adopted DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics in some way. However, with the evolution going mainstream, it is also becoming complex, and practitioners are constantly being challenged to learn about new products, tools, and new technology. Providing some context to this chapter, the evolution of CD is driven by the challenges and constantly changing ecosystem of producers and consumers...