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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
6
Part 2: Implementing Continuous Delivery
11
Part 3: Best Practices and the Way Ahead

Exploring monolithic and microservice architectures

In this section, we will discuss briefly what an application is and some traditional architectural models—monoliths and microservices—as well as their advantages and drawbacks. We will also discuss some challenges when dealing with monoliths and microservices in cloud environments.

We talk a lot about applications in this book, but as this term is a bit plastic, we should keep an eye on what an application could be for us. When we’re tapping and swiping around our mobile devices, we often use the term app. So, in the mobile context, an app is a piece of software that enhances the capabilities of our device. In a more traditional sense, on our desktop/laptop, an application is very similar to an app and is often written in a very monolithic approach. Therefore, we call things such as our development environment an application, and things that run in the background a service or daemon.

In the context of this...