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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

CD practice and its evolution

The maturity of a CD practice comes with time. Once the practice evolves, faster releases with fewer bugs and issues make it to production. The flexibility of on-demand, anytime deployment of new features not only increases the competitiveness of the product but also builds confidence in the development practice itself. More standardization and maturing tools and applications for CI/CD also enhance the CD services portfolio. Organizations are also looking at different ways to improve developer productivity by removing foundational capabilities with an as a service option. CD pipelines move down in the value chain with the maturity of the CD practice. The stages of CD practice maturity and related operating models are set out here:

  • CD with on-premises: The first steps in building up a CD practice indeed start with understanding the benefits, which can range from just automating manual tasks to building up the basic infrastructure, applications,...