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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

Funding and investment in CD in cloud projects

Open source projects often start with a very specific problem, which means a narrow scope. Finding funds for those projects can be a challenging task. Sustaining open source projects is also a difficult task. Funding is an essential part of the success of an open source project. We present to you some guidance based on successful open source initiatives:

  • Project-to-product: Projects such as GitLab have experimented with the project-to-product approach. This approach can help in funding the initiative by creating a SaaS offering that helps bring subscription-based funding to projects. Product managers work together with developers to bring incremental features in small chunks for rapid innovation and better reliability.
  • Sponsorships and FOSS funds: According to recent articles and blogs on funding topics, it seems investing in open source is the new normal. Big companies have established FOSS funds, such as Salesforce, which...