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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

Creating a Successful Strategy and Preparing for Continuous Delivery

This chapter covers in detail the prerequisites for onboarding to continuous delivery (CD) in the cloud from an organizational perspective. It introduces various aspects of organizational readiness and explains how to lay out successful strategies for CD in the cloud. This chapter guides you through the process of implementing, managing, and improving CD in the cloud. It also digs deeper into preparing for the requirements of modernization for CD with regard to the cloud, the core challenges involved, aligning and connecting the roadmap with the cloud to maximize the return of investment of CD, and lastly, competence and upskilling needs.

The chapter covers the following topics:

  • Strategic goals and objectives of modernizing CD in the cloud
  • Connecting business, transformational, and operational strategies
  • Outlining organizational prerequisites for CD in the cloud
  • Upskilling goals for the organization...