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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
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Part 3: Best Practices and the Way Ahead

Shifting left – cost, risk, and security management

With changing CD, security concerns are elevated. A new threat ecosystem is in the making, and application developers are constantly looking to mitigate the risk and reduce the blast radius of security breaches. They must also transform how they implement security across their cloud-native stack. On top of this, more rapid releases and the adoption of a next-generation cloud-native approach with tools and platforms that enable applications to be built in hybrid environments have overwhelmed developers. To successfully implement cloud-native application security, enterprises should use an integrated platform approach—in Gartner’s research referred to as cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPPs). CNAPPs are an integrated set of security and compliance capabilities designed to support, secure, and protect cloud-native applications across development and production.

There are various elements of cloud...