You're reading from Secure Continuous Delivery on Google Cloud

Product typeBook

Published inApr 2024

PublisherPackt

ISBN-139781805129288

Edition1st Edition

Concepts

DevOps

Authors (3):

Giovanni Galloro

Nathaniel Avery

David Dorbin

View More author details

Diving into Best Practices and Trends in Continuous Delivery

In this chapter, we describe some best practices for continuous delivery on Google Cloud that we didn’t cover exhaustively in previous chapters, and we’ll also peek at some future improvements and development directions for Google Cloud software-delivery capabilities.

You can accomplish continuous delivery on Google Cloud using the tools and techniques mentioned in this book. We provided an overview of the pipeline in Chapter 10. After your pipeline is running, there are a few recommended practices for observability.

In addition to observability, GitOps has become a de facto standard methodology for deploying applications and configurations. Using these techniques, you should be up to the task.

The future of continuous delivery looks exciting, with new technologies being integrated into delivery pipelines. Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to be integrated into almost every step in one form or...

Best practices for deploying secure delivery pipelines

This book includes many examples of how to accomplish goals related to setting up and operating a secure delivery pipeline. This section shares the following further tips:

Using a host project for CI/CD infrastructure
Using VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC)
Using private pools for Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy
Using Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring
Enabling recommended alerts
Using GitOps

Let’s start by looking at using a dedicated project for your CI/CD resources.

Using a host project for CI/CD infrastructure

Google Cloud uses projects as a way to isolate workloads, credentials, and resources. Users, APIs, and billing are enabled and managed separately in each project. For one project to interact with another, explicit permissions must be granted on one or both of those projects. Using a host project for CI/CD infrastructure can save both time and money as you can consolidate all CI...

Anticipating the future

The future of secure software delivery will focus on AI, simplicity, and interoperability. These changes will be encapsulated within the overall evolution of DevOps.

DevOps is a broad wrapper around people, processes, and technology. CI/CD is an integral part of the technology stack, and continuous delivery is a central process. The 2023 DORA report lists several key outcomes that organizations seek. These outcomes cover a wide variety of measures for organizations to evaluate, including elements from processes, capabilities, and culture.

Among those processes and capabilities are assessments related to AI use. The prominent inclusion of AI makes it clear that the DORA team sees AI as a way to improve overall performance and cultural aspects of an organization, such as burnout and job satisfaction. The idea is that for DevOps to evolve, the components within it must also grow and change to increase velocity. There is evidence, as presented in the DORA...

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed some of the best practices related to creating and monitoring CI/CD pipelines. This chapter also touched on predictions for the future of CI/CD and DevOps based on trends reported by industry analysts and the experience of this book’s authors. Research from DORA tells us that successful teams constantly experiment with the combination of tools and personnel structures used, record the results of the experiments, and then analyze the results before deciding on the best parameters for the next experiment. You can use the information and examples provided in this book to experiment with your team.

References

To learn more about the topics that were covered in this chapter, take a look at the following resources:

Google Developers. (2022, April 1). Google Cloud projects: Tips and best practices. Retrieved from https://developers.googleblog.com/2022/04/google-cloud-projects-tips-and-best.html.
DeBellis., D., Lewis, A., & Villalba, D. (2023). Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2023. DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA).
DeBellis, D., Peters, C. (2022) Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2022. DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA).

The rest of the chapter is locked

You have been reading a chapter from

Secure Continuous Delivery on Google Cloud

Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805129288

A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.

undefined

Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days

Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of

Start free trial

Renews at $15.99/month. Cancel anytime

Authors (3)

Giovanni Galloro

Giovanni Galloro has been working at Google since 2017 as a customer engineer specializing in container-based runtimes, DevOps tools, and application networking. He works with multiple organizations across EMEA, helping them to leverage these capabilities and improve their software delivery practices. Giovanni is a community ambassador for the Continuous Delivery Foundation and is a frequent speaker at developer conferences. Before Google, he worked at Microsoft, Red Hat, VMware, and HP, following the evolution of application platforms over the past 20 years.
Read more about Giovanni Galloro

Nathaniel Avery

Nathaniel Avery works at Google as an outbound product manager for the Google Cloud Application Ecosystem group, specializing in DevOps tools, and has spoken to many Fortune 500 companies about DevOps tooling solutions. Before joining Google, Nate spent more than 20 years in IT designing, planning, and implementing complex systems, integrating custom-built and COTS applications for federal government customers. Currently, he's working on better ways to build and use cloud resources to help customers deliver better products, safely and securely, without sacrificing velocity.
Read more about Nathaniel Avery

David Dorbin

David Dorbin has been a technical writer for more than three decades. He's been with Google for more than a dozen years, documenting payment applications, internal tools, and Google Cloud DevOps products. Before Google, he worked with numerous start-ups and established companies, documenting technologies in payment processing, digital publishing and rights management, consumer electronics, and cryptography for financial institutions. In his free time, Dave enjoys playing bass and banjolele (but never at the same time), or doing more damage to his Achilles' heel on the streets and trails of northern New Jersey.
Read more about David Dorbin

Personalised recommendations for you

Based on your interests and search pattern

Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions

Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions Exam Ref AZ-700 is an all-encompassing guide to the AZ-700 exam and contains all the information you need to succeed in the world of virtual networking with Azure. With this book, you will be fully prepared for the exam and the world of cloud networking.

BookAug 2023524 pages

Microsoft 365 Security, Compliance, and Identity Administration

The Microsoft 365 Security, Compliance, and Identity Administration is a comprehensive guide that helps you employ Microsoft 365's robust suite of features and empowers you to optimize your administrative tasks.

BookAug 2023630 pages

Zero Trust Overview and Playbook Introduction

Get started on Zero Trust with this step-by-step playbook and learn everything you need to know for a successful Zero Trust journey with tailored guidance for every role, covering strategy, operations, architecture, implementation, and measuring success. This book will become an indispensable reference for everyone in your organization.

BookOct 2023240 pages

The Self-Taught Cloud Computing Engineer

This self-study book helps you master multiple clouds, including AWS, Azure, and GCP, and serves as a roadmap to becoming a certified cloud computing expert. The book will guide you to develop a professional cloud career by helping you build a broad cloud knowledge base, developing hands-on cloud computing skills, and getting cloud certified.

BookSep 2023472 pages

Technology Operating Models for Cloud and Edge

This book will help you build and create ownership of a technology operating model, as well as connect your leadership with engineering and operations, keeping your internal and external customers in mind. It provides practical tips on why, where, and how to make the cloud and edge platform paradigm sing for you, your team, and your organization.

BookAug 2023228 pages

Azure Architecture Explained

Azure is the preferred platform to build mission-critical and secure apps. This book provides comprehensive coverage of essential Azure products, services, and solutions vital for every solution architect's success. Elevate your knowledge and master the critical components of Azure to excel in your role with Azure Architecture Explained.

BookSep 2023446 pages

Pentesting Active Directory and Windows-based Infrastructure

This practical guide helps you explore the pentesting of Microsoft infrastructure in detail, and enhances your offensive skillset by showing you the different ways to perform security assessment. This book will help blue teamers and IT engineers get up to speed with possible security issues they may encounter in their Windows environments.

BookNov 2023360 pages

Practical Ansible

In Practical Ansible, you'll work with the latest release of Ansible and learn to solve complex issues quickly with the help of task-oriented scenarios. You'll start by installing and configuring Ansible to automate monotonous and repetitive IT tasks and get to grips with concepts such as playbooks, inventories, plugins, collections, and network modules.

BookSep 2023420 pages

Windows 11 for Enterprise Administrators

Microsoft’s launch of Windows 11 is a step toward satisfying the enterprise administrator’s needs for better management and enhanced user experience customization. This book provides the enterprise administrator with the knowledge needed to fully utilize the advanced feature set of Windows 11 Enterprise.

BookOct 2023286 pages

The Linux DevOps Handbook

This book is for software and IT professionals seeking knowledge on Linux systems and DevOps practices. This book will provide you with guidance and tools to learn and gain proficiency in managing Linux-based infrastructures and knowledge of DevOps.

BookNov 2023428 pages2