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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

Key requirements for scaling CI/CD

Once the number of microservices tends to increase, the CI/CD ecosystem can get complex very rapidly. Unfortunately, adding more developers cannot be the modern solution to this problem. The number of deployments no longer linearly scales by adding more developers to the equation. A lot has been already said about strategizing CD, but to conclude, here are a few key pointers to think about when you are scaling CI/CD for an organization:

  • Ecosystem integration: Standardize and automate the CD pipeline. Clearly define the ownership for creating the deployment pipeline, and when performing deployment, try to automate as much as possible to reduce management overhead in a stepwise manner. Also, ensure that you can measure how current processes/tools and applications are performing.
  • Implementation of a hybrid cloud: Whether you’re running in AWS or Azure, building software in Google, or using a multi-target approach, always keep the business...