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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

Summary

This chapter started with a short overview of the technical success factors when delivering applications.

We learned that collaboration, the right service model, and thinking about the current processes can make us successful. Furthermore, we looked at possible metrics and found that we could measure the effectiveness of our safety nets. After that, we took a closer look at the differences between monoliths and microservices and also discussed how cloud-native infrastructures and platforms differ from traditional infrastructure. Finally, we looked at larger-scale deployments and learned how multi-stage, multi-cluster, and multi-cloud deployments can be used to give us more confidence in our deployment strategy.

In the next chapter, we’ll focus a bit more on the technology and tooling side of the story and will find out how this can support our strategy.