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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
11
Part 3: Best Practices and the Way Ahead

Summary

In this chapter, we learned a lot about cloud computing itself, its characteristics, and how they might affect our continuous delivery strategy. First, we took a closer look at the deployment models – private, public, and hybrid cloud – and found that they affect our continuous delivery strategy since our software might also be spread across multiple locations.

After that, we discussed the main characteristics of the cloud and some of the differences between the cloud and typical hosted services. We learned that self-service, elasticity, and resource pooling can help us with continuous delivery by adding infrastructure on demand.

To round up the cloud basics, we mentioned the various service models available (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) and elaborated on their main characteristics. We also found out that we might not deliver an application in a single service model.

After, we discussed why continuous delivery is different in the cloud and what opportunities...