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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

Adoption challenges and key recommendations

We are advancing into the next wave of cloud-native technologies, and CD plays a pivotal role in enabling this. We discussed earlier some of the key advancements for the CD stack; however, there is an uphill road to adopt and scale future capabilities. We see organizations are becoming vigilant and continuing to watch out for cloud exit plans, DevOps is dead, what next?, and so on, partially due to adoption challenges but more because of lack of guidance and support. Let’s discuss how to avoid such pitfalls for CD and cloud-native in general:

  • Cost tracking, management, and optimization: It is important to be in control of the return on investment (ROI) of onboarding new technology, tools, and processes. The CD posture can dictate expenditure if this is not managed and optimized consciously. A third-party audit can be one way to keep checks and balances for the future.
  • Best practices and general guidelines: We elaborated...