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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
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Part 2: Implementing Continuous Delivery
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Part 3: Best Practices and the Way Ahead

Key challenges of the current state of CD

Before we try to simulate the evolution of CD through this chapter, let’s try to establish the baseline or the purpose of this evolution. Of course, some aspects might be random, but most of the parts that are discussed in this chapter will be evolving due to the current challenges and constraints introduced because of architectural or functional limitations. There are also operational and process aspects that might be a bottleneck in the future. So, the following are some identified challenges:

  • Exponential growth in tools: It is hard to believe that we only started a decade or so ago with most of the practices and concepts in the CD space. Today, hundreds of tools are available that can perform foundational tasks for CI/CD.
  • Co-evolution of practices, tools, and the cloud: The co-evolution of processes and tools does interrupt stability with bursts of short evolution cycles, whether it be Infrastructure as Code (IaC), progressive...