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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

Overview

As continuous delivery in the cloud has essentially disrupted our approach to designing, developing, testing, and deploying software applications, we would like to take a new approach to test the knowledge gathered through reading this book. We will be using a case-study-based approach where readers are expected to read and respond to the real-life problem by applying the knowledge gained from this book. One might ask: why not use the traditional question-based approach? The answer: to associate the learnings with near real-life scenarios that help bring forward critical thinking and creativity, and contribute to the professional growth of readers in a positive way.

As we know that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to such (case-study-based) problems, using such methodology for testing knowledge provides opportunities to brainstorm the case studies in groups and even build scenarios of different approaches and link the pros and cons.

The goal for readers is to build...