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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

In this chapter, we talked about the different technologies you can find in a typical delivery strategy. We started with a CI pipeline, which builds the necessary code and delivers it to a repository. After that, we talked a bit about templating and how to use it to parameterize our applications. Once we knew how to package our applications, we learned that we can define our IaC and how this can help us when deploying large-scale systems. Then, we moved on to GitOps and found out that it helps us keep our applications in their desired state, which we define in a declarative way. Afterward, we took a closer look at platforms and how to enhance the developer experience with them. Finally, we found out that not every problem can be solved and that we might want to contribute to existing projects or even write our own tools.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to be more confident in your deployment process and get faster in a controlled way.