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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

Operational advancements

Many technological developments for CD are intertwined. Keeping an eye on operational complexity, resilience, and reliability also becomes critical. In this section, we will talk about some of the key developments that are steered backward from production to development:

  • Simplification of the operational posture: To embrace incremental technology advancements for CD, it is important to double down on standardization and simplification, with the integration of automated and repeatable processes to address the reliability needs of cloud-native applications in production. Due diligence is required to keep the operational posture clean, simple, and optimized.
  • Next-generation service management: While we advance through modern CD capabilities into our applications, it constantly shifts our perspective to portable and reusable components. To ensure a robust and resilient posture of production-ready applications, they must be portable, interoperable, and...