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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

Architectural advancements

Some more disruptive architectural advancements are likely to transform how we develop and deploy applications and even go beyond cloud-native. Before we dig deeper into the architecture, let’s discuss key trends for next-generation applications from a micro perspective:

  • Portability: A variety of programming languages, platforms, and frameworks
  • Observability: Decentralized and distributed management
  • Resource-optimized and resilient: Optimized posture of infrastructure
  • Real-time and dynamic: Support rapid scale-up and scale-down and address real-time requirements

There are more macro trends or big-picture outlooks that are also influencing the architecture when it comes to cloud-native applications. Let’s also discuss the macro changes:

  • Cloud-native to edge-native applications: Edge-native applications have cloud-native principles while taking care of resource usage, latency, bandwidth management, security,...