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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

Choosing the right cloud environment, model, and tools

Today’s market for cloud providers is quite dynamic and evolving. Choosing the right cloud environment is not a subjective topic; however, there are resources available to help you make the right decision for your context. Let’s first discuss the process of selection of the environment, model, and tool.

We intend to cover the steps including preparation, strategic analysis, initial selection criteria, and—lastly—how to adopt and manage the evolving CD practice in the cloud. This section provides high-level support for decision-makers to follow a pragmatic approach.

Preparation

Organizations have to prepare individuals, teams, and the organization itself for embracing change. Consider the big picture, top goals, and objectives for the organization; also, perform stakeholder interviews, user research, and—lastly—technology and business research. There are frameworks, techniques,...