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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 6 – security and compliance

Now, you should be at a stage where you know almost every component of your deployment strategy. Find out where there could be security issues and how to mitigate them by addressing the following:

  • What potential risks are there?
  • What happens if you are not mitigating them?
  • What can you do to safeguard your customers?

Guidance toward a possible solution for Task 6

Let’s try to address this task with what we learned in Chapter 8. Our strategy should contain some security aspects. For our application, we defined reliability as one of the major goals. As we will also deal with billing-related data, confidence might also be an issue and as our app will be deployed on many devices via app stores, integrity is also a major concern.

We’ve already dealt with the reliability part throughout the previous few sections and confidentiality would probably be a part of application development. Nevertheless, we can ensure...