Opportunities and risks of practicing cloud-based continuous delivery

Let’s start with a simple visual of the building blocks of continuous delivery in the cloud. Referring to the building block of continuous delivery (Figure 1.1 in Chapter 1), we can take a simple approach to visualize the building block being hosted in the cloud:

Figure 2.2 – Continuous delivery in the cloud

Now, it might look like it is a matter of location where these building blocks are hosted; however, it is more than that. Cloud-based continuous delivery can be a catalyst for multi-dimensional transformation, which comes with its own set of opportunities and challenges.

We can assume that these components are hosted in the cloud with cloud computing characteristics. Making this a little more complex, some organizations are in the middle of the transformation, which means that only some of these building blocks are hosted in the cloud, whereas for others, it can...