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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

Opportunities and risks of practicing cloud-based continuous delivery

Let’s start with a simple visual of the building blocks of continuous delivery in the cloud. Referring to the building block of continuous delivery (Figure 1.1 in Chapter 1), we can take a simple approach to visualize the building block being hosted in the cloud:

Figure 2.2 – Continuous delivery in the cloud

Figure 2.2 – Continuous delivery in the cloud

Now, it might look like it is a matter of location where these building blocks are hosted; however, it is more than that. Cloud-based continuous delivery can be a catalyst for multi-dimensional transformation, which comes with its own set of opportunities and challenges.

We can assume that these components are hosted in the cloud with cloud computing characteristics. Making this a little more complex, some organizations are in the middle of the transformation, which means that only some of these building blocks are hosted in the cloud, whereas for others, it can...