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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

Drawing a big picture of your strategy

At this point, you might be tempted to open your editor and start writing code. However, now might be the best time to open your favorite drawing tool (for example, diagrams.net, Excalidraw, and so on), recap your earlier meetings, and draw your deployment architecture. This will help you and others get a common view of the deployment strategy and avoid misunderstandings. Furthermore, this can get your pathway to a successful implementation:

Figure 6.1 – Big picture of a deployment strategy

Figure 6.1 – Big picture of a deployment strategy

The preceding figure is a simple example of how to draw this. In this case, we assume that we have a CI pipeline that builds, tests, and delivers the code and finally writes the deployment configuration to a repository. This repository is read by a GitOps tool that deploys the applications to an environment. After deployment, we could execute some simple tests and promote to the next environment (for example, staging), where...