Book Image

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

Platforms and developer portals

Now that we have a thorough understanding of many technologies, you might be wondering how you could use them in the real world. You may also have some other questions, such as the following:

  • How can I provision lots of environments?
  • How can I manage this whole infrastructure?
  • Can I combine infrastructure and application development?
  • What about multicloud?
  • What about the developer experience?

While many of the aforementioned technologies emerged in the last years and many other people had the same questions as you, a new discipline called platform engineering emerged. To make this a bit more clear, let’s take a look at a short example.

Let’s assume the service we packaged in Chapter 5 gets a very popular service, and we want to offer it to our customers. At some point, this application will get extended to use a database and for resiliency reasons, we want to run it across multiple clouds. Therefore, the...