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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

Open source licensing

There are many myths about open source, which we will also uncover in this chapter, starting with why open source licensing? Let’s start with the basics; one of the biggest misconceptions is that open source is often considered just free access to a code base. Open source licenses provide the terms of use, distribution, and modification, with obligations defined around open source software, including the code base. It is considered a contract between the owner, contributor, and distributor in one way. Open source software is considered a disruption from the way software was developed in the past as intellectual property (IP). Primarily, open source licenses are categorized into two broad categories, copy-left and permissive.

Copy-left ties back to the free software movement where you are allowed to use, modify, and distribute the software with reciprocity, which means any software that intends to use copy-left will be distributed under the same type...