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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

Connecting business, transformational, and operational strategies

Next, we need to create a strategic plan that aligns the goals of business, operations, and software delivery. Cloud-native software has changed the way we release software, and agile, DevOps, and lean practices have made it possible to deliver value more quickly. This has led to a need for more complex prioritization and strategy alignment, and cloud-based infrastructure has made it easier to shift strategies at all levels.

The goal of adopting CD in the cloud is to enable an incremental value flow in a fast, reliable, and cost-efficient way. Leveraging cloud capabilities and integrating it with mature CD practice is one way to achieve this, where adoption of a cloud-hosted CD solution can support the teams to deliver working software right from the first sprint:

  • Leveraging the cloud to maximize CD: Cloud-hosted products are not built in a monolithic way, nor are they operated like monolithic software. The...