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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

Task 1 – business alignment

Your company asks you to develop a strategy for continuous delivery in the cloud. Based on the findings of the strategic section of this book, find out the following:

  • Who are the stakeholders of your solution?
  • What sources of revenue are there for your delivery strategy and how much revenue is there?
  • How can continuous delivery in the cloud support your business?
  • How does your business profit from continuous delivery and when do you consider your strategy to be successful?

Guidance toward a possible solution for Task 1

Let’s try to address this task with what we learned in Chapter 3. To give you an idea of what such a solution could look like, we will go over the planning phase here. This will cover the case study described in the previous section and shed some light on each task.

Business alignment

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