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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

Understanding and owning the culture for CD in the cloud

Maximizing CD outcomes in the modern cloud ecosystem comes with leveraging the productivity mechanisms offered through technological advancement. Taking the next steps in the journey and embracing the CD continuum might be more complex than it looks.

As an organization passes through different stages, it is important to continue to collaborate and share learning to continuously improve the CD posture. Here are a few points that will help you to avoid stalling your adoption journey once you are past the first few steps of setting up CD for products:

  • More automation as we go: Evolving from removing toil to orchestrating a set of automated tasks in the workflow needs a team effort. Once the automation scales beyond a particular task, it needs substantial collaboration and coordination between various functional teams. The next steps in the automation journey for CD and the cloud together can seamlessly cross over different...