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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)
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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

Outlining organizational prerequisites for CD in the cloud

CD in the cloud can be a game changer; however, the journey of adoption and maturation can be painful, as old habits often persist. From the outside, it may appear that this process can be based on plug-and-play tools and applications from the cloud, but there is more to it. In this section, we highlight the prerequisites for adopting advanced CD practices in the cloud with specific guidance practices, approaches, and key considerations for industry practitioners.

Co-existence of Agile, DevOps, and cloud technologies and practices

If you are reading this book, Agile, DevOps, and lean practices might not be new to you. These practices are among the first prerequisites to set up and evolve CD in the cloud. More important is to put these practices together in a software delivery context:

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