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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 5 – advanced technologies

At this point in time, you have a clear understanding of which services you might need, whether you need to make or buy them, and how cloud providers can support you. In this optional step, you can try to improve your typical deployment strategy and increase your speed by addressing the following:

  • What happens if you aren’t fast enough, from a technical and business perspective?
  • Can feature flagging improve your workflow?
  • Do you want to use canary or blue-green deployments and how do you want to deal with them?

Guidance toward a possible solution for Task 5

Let’s try to address this task with our learnings from Chapters 5, 6, and 7. Now that we have seen how cloud services can help us, it’s time to think about getting faster. As we defined in the beginning and also in our technical strategy, velocity is a crucial factor for the success of our business. For example, a vendor might not be very satisfied...