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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

Modernizing for CD in the cloud

One of the most fulfilling parts of a transformation journey is to actually perform the implementation and subsequent management of the change. It is easy to fall back and revert to old ways if insufficient attention is paid to streamlining the implementation and management of the change being introduced through modernization. In this section, we will highlight briefly some aspects of advancements of CD in the cloud as regards implementation.

Implementation

With the advancement of CD practices, tools, and processes, we have an array of applications and tools to choose from. This presents a set of benefits including not limited to the following:

  • The ability to apply CI and CD to software development through a set of abstractions without the need to build them from scratch
  • Allowing operational oversight of releases and versions
  • Treating all processes as code within the pipeline
  • Subscription-based adoption of capabilities on demand...