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Architecting Cloud Native Applications

By : Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, John Gilbert, Piyum Zonooz
Book Image

Architecting Cloud Native Applications

By: Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, John Gilbert, Piyum Zonooz

Overview of this book

Cloud computing has proven to be the most revolutionary IT development since virtualization. Cloud native architectures give you the benefit of more flexibility over legacy systems. This Learning Path teaches you everything you need to know for designing industry-grade cloud applications and efficiently migrating your business to the cloud. It begins by exploring the basic patterns that turn your database inside out to achieve massive scalability. You’ll learn how to develop cloud native architectures using microservices and serverless computing as your design principles. Then, you’ll explore ways to continuously deliver production code by implementing continuous observability in production. In the concluding chapters, you’ll learn about various public cloud architectures ranging from AWS and Azure to the Google Cloud Platform, and understand the future trends and expectations of cloud providers. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll have learned the techniques to adopt cloud native architectures that meet your business requirements. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices by John Gilbert • Cloud Native Architectures by Erik Farr et al.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Testing

In the previous chapter, we began our deep dive into the human factors of cloud-native. We discussed how decoupling deployment from release by controlling batch size, shifting deployment all the way to the left, and leveraging dark launches helps mitigate risk and empowers self-sufficient, full-stack teams to rapidly and continuously deliver innovation with confidence. Deliberately planned release and deployment roadmaps facilitate this decoupling. Deployments are controlled by a task branch workflow and orchestrated by a modern CI/CD pipeline to help ensure zero-downtime deployments. Testing is no longer a phase—it is an integral part of the deployment pipeline.

In this chapter, we will continue to discuss the human factors of cloud-native. We will shift testing all the way to the left and weave it into the CI/CD pipeline to help enable teams to continuously deploy changes to production and deliver innovation to customers with confidence. We will cover the following topics...