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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

Sandbox, incubating, and graduating projects

Let’s take an example from the CNCF, which is one of the leading organizations when it comes to supporting cloud-native open source projects with community members, research, events, and funding initiatives. Every CNCF project has an associated maturity level:

Figure 11.1 – Project stages of an open source project (Source: https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/process/project_proposals.md)

Figure 11.1 – Project stages of an open source project (Source: https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/process/project_proposals.md)

Let us look at these stages in detail:

  • Sandbox projects: The sandbox projects can be considered to be in an experimental stage. Some of the popular projects that were accepted as sandboxes in 2022 and 2023 include Kubescape, Opencost, Ko, and so on. These projects benefit from the CNCF community and a collaborative approach to further develop these projects. You can find the list of sandbox projects here: https://www.cncf.io/sandbox-projects/.

The following workflow diagram depicts how a CNCF sandbox...