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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

Strategic goals and objectives of modernizing CD in the cloud

Investment in CD is a critical prerequisite for business modernization efforts. It is expected that by adopting CD, organizations will significantly enhance their software delivery productivity, which in turn enables the delivery of new products and services. CD could thus be considered a force multiplier. However, many organizations find that they cannot exploit the full potential of CD at scale. There are many possible reasons for this strategic gap between expectation and reality. Let’s start with understanding why this happens and how investing time in setting the organization’s strategic goals and objectives can help close the gap:

  • Competing priorities: Organizations can have siloed initiatives where many different segments of the organization each try to steer the cloud onboarding, but often in a way that is disconnected from the development and software modernization initiatives. Business leaders...