Task 4 – getting into the cloud

Now that you have a comprehensive idea of your technical goals, you can take the next step and define how cloud services and technologies could support them. Typical questions to address this are the following:

• What building blocks are there?
• Which service model do you prefer for each building block?
• How much vendor lock-in are you able or willing to accept?
• How many things do you want to build by yourself?

Guidance toward a possible solution for Task 4

Let’s try to address this task with what we learned in Chapter 6. At this point, we have a kind of vision of what we want to achieve and what it might look like. Everything we created before could work perfectly fine in our own data center, but could incur a large amount of maintenance effort that we as a start-up want to avoid. Given the current architecture, our solution might consist of the following building blocks:

• Source code repository
• Pipeline...