5: Cloud native application delivery

This chapter covers the topics in the Cloud native application delivery section of the exam. The topics account for 8% of the overall exam.

The chapter is divided as follows.

  • Primer
  • CI/CD
  • GitOps
  • Chapter summary
  • Exam essentials
  • Recap questions

Primer

Cloud native application delivery is often referred to as code to cloud and code to production, and we usually automate it with continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines as well as GitOps tools. We’ll talk more about all of this later in the chapter, but for now you should know the major automation steps.

  1. Build code
  2. Test code
  3. Release code

Automating these steps enables fast, frequent, and high-quality releases.

Finally, release is ...

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