Task 2 – operational alignment

Your company has limited funding; you are asked to develop a plan for cost-efficient and reliable operations. Based on what you’ve learned from this book about the operational aspect, find answers to the following:

• How would you implement CD in the cloud to support the business objective?
• Which technology components should be considered to drive efficiency?
• How would you define a high-level organizational structure to drive the operational strategy?

Guidance toward a possible solution for Task 2

Let’s try to address this task with the knowledge gained from Chapters 2 and 4. To give you an idea of what such a solution could look like, we will go over the planning phase here, which includes the following:

• Choosing the right cloud environment, model, and tool
• Continuous delivery practice and its evolution
• Key practices to adopt and an organizational structure that supports their adoption

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