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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 2 – operational alignment

Your company has limited funding; you are asked to develop a plan for cost-efficient and reliable operations. Based on what you’ve learned from this book about the operational aspect, find answers to the following:

  • How would you implement CD in the cloud to support the business objective?
  • Which technology components should be considered to drive efficiency?
  • How would you define a high-level organizational structure to drive the operational strategy?

Guidance toward a possible solution for Task 2

Let’s try to address this task with the knowledge gained from Chapters 2 and 4. To give you an idea of what such a solution could look like, we will go over the planning phase here, which includes the following:

  • Choosing the right cloud environment, model, and tool
  • Continuous delivery practice and its evolution
  • Key practices to adopt and an organizational structure that supports their adoption
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