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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

Aiming for Velocity and Reducing Delivery Risks

In Chapter 6, we learned about the technologies and tools we can use to implement our continuous delivery (CD) strategy. There are lots of technologies that will help you deliver your software in a more efficient and reproducible way. So far, we have only talked about the technical aspects, but not much about how we could get faster and at the same time reduce delivery risks.

At the beginning of this chapter, we will discuss why velocity is important, but also the associated risks when getting faster. We will also discuss how this can be measured and what DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics are. After that, we will take a close look at things that can hold us back from our goal and how we might overcome such issues. Then, our path leads us toward deployment strategies—such as blue/green, canary, and rolling updates—and how they can help us achieve our goals. Then, we will learn how feature flags and chaos engineering...