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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

Preface

Many organizations are embracing cloud technology to remain competitive. Implementing and adopting your software development processes, tools, and techniques while modernizing a cloud-based ecosystem can be challenging. Strategizing Continuous Delivery in the Cloud will help you to understand why you need to modernize continuous delivery, a core component of software development and delivery, and how to drive the convergence of infrastructure and software application deployment in the cloud.

You will begin by discovering how continuous delivery in the cloud is different from traditional approaches to continuous delivery and will look at the steps to build the right strategy that works best for your organization. Further, you will get guidance on developing, testing, integrating, deploying, and operating cloud-native software in different types of cloud-based environments. The book covers in detail the prerequisites for onboarding continuous delivery in the cloud from an organizational and technical perspective. You will delve into key aspects of organizational and technological readiness to lay out successful strategies for overcoming core challenges on your cloud journey. Finally, you will learn about the dos and don’ts to stay on top of your DevOps game long after the starting point.

By the end of this book, you will have a solid understanding of how to choose the right type of cloud environment and the right technologies for modernizing continuous delivery.