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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

Case study

Before detailing the case study, let’s try to summarize its elements for better understanding. The case study includes a short description of the problem with a key supporting statement that provides readers with context about the business problem. It is normal in the real world that problems presented are ambiguous, have a small frame of reference, and are based on a number of assumptions.

Short description of the case study

Gamer Moose is a tech start-up that creates a gaming platform for hosting online games. These games can be multiplayer, real-time games hosted on the web and on mobile. It generates money through hosting games provided by different gaming companies and earning a commission on virtual purchases. The application is also available on the App Store and other similar platforms. As it is a start-up, it is competing with similar incumbents, which means deploying incremental features with speed, reliability, and cost-efficiency. In the next few...