What this book covers
Chapter 1, Planning for Continuous Delivery in the Cloud, provides a brief introduction to continuous delivery concepts, its relevance, and its benefits. In addition, we will also describe the step-by-step implementation of continuous delivery with the help of some tools and techniques used industry-wide.
Chapter 2, Understanding Cloud Delivery Models, describes the relevant basics and characteristics of cloud computing (e.g., delivery models). This chapter should help you to understand which things are useful when dealing with continuous delivery in the cloud.
Chapter 3, Creating a Successful Strategy and Preparing for Continuous Delivery, covers in detail the prerequisites for onboarding continuous delivery in the cloud from an organizational perspective. It presents an introduction to various aspects of organizational readiness and explains how to lay out successful strategies for continuous delivery in the cloud. The chapter provides guidance on implementing, managing, and improving continuous delivery in the cloud. It also digs deeper into preparing for the modernization needs of CD with respect to the cloud, core challenges, aligning and connecting a roadmap with the cloud to maximize the outcome, and lastly, competence and upskilling needs.
Chapter 4, Setting Up and Scaling Continuous Delivery in the Cloud, provides a detailed view of setting up continuous delivery in the cloud to maximize the overall return on investment of software development, infrastructure, and management. The chapter provides an overview of scaling up continuous delivery in the cloud for enterprises. It includes organizational characteristics, requirements for scaling CI/CD, and ownership of CI/CD with roles and responsibilities.
Chapter 5, Finding Your Technical Strategy Toward Continuous Delivery in the Cloud, describes the architectural decisions and considerations that must be taken when aiming for continuous delivery. Furthermore, it sheds some light on topics that could put a CD environment and strategy at risk.
Chapter 6, Achieving Successful Implementation with Supporting Technology, describes some additional technical measures for your CD strategy and how they might help to achieve a successful implementation.
Chapter 7, Aiming for Velocity and Reducing Delivery Risks, describes why lead times in application delivery have an impact, why they could be hard for developers, and how we can measure performance.
Chapter 8, Security in Continuous Delivery and Testing your Deployment, describes why security in continuous delivery is important. Furthermore, it deals with security in the software supply chain and which checks can be done to ensure that the delivered software is secure.
Chapter 9, Best Practices and References, focuses on industry best practices and a few case studies as a reference.
Chapter 10, Future Trends of Continuous Delivery, focuses on the key trends of continuous delivery and connected advancements. We focus on the mid to long term to introduce readers to evolutionary changes and key considerations for their adoption.
Chapter 11, Contributing to the Open Source Ecosystem, focuses on open source projects for potential contributors. We introduce projects and ways to contribute to the open source ecosystem for further reading.
Chapter 12, Practical Assignments, focuses on practical assignments to test your knowledge.
