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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
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Part 2: Implementing Continuous Delivery
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Part 3: Best Practices and the Way Ahead

Understanding Cloud Delivery Models

In the previous chapter, we introduced some core concepts of continuous delivery and gained insights into cloud-based implementations of it. Although we learned that there are tools in the cloud that might help us implement continuous delivery, we will briefly touch upon the characteristics of the cloud itself and how it can help us deliver our software more efficiently and conveniently. But before we do that, we’ll take a brief detour into how cloud computing changed the build/continuous integration (CI) processes in the last few years.

When companies started using CI they often started with one instance of their CI/automation server (such as Jenkins) and ran their builds directly on these servers. After some time, they might have discovered that these builds ran better in parallel and added some (more or less static) runners on virtual machines or bare metal to handle this load. As you might imagine, these pre-provisioned runners have...