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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
11
Part 3: Best Practices and the Way Ahead

The governance model and maturity levels

Open source is embedded into nearly every software produced today through direct or indirect means.

We now take a deeper plunge into CD and cloud technologies, which have enabled several modern software practices. Many popular areas such as containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs are getting contributions from open source communities now more than ever. There are some focused organizations that have helped the community to broaden the impact by providing stewardship to the OSS projects.

Stewardship to the OSS projects

We will highlight a few such organization models and associated organizations with a focus on their efforts to grow the CD in the cloud open source ecosystem and provide guidance on the governance of these software projects in general:

  • Individual companies or industry consortiums: Big companies often choose to distribute software under the terms of an open source...