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DevOps with Windows Server 2016

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DevOps with Windows Server 2016

Overview of this book

Delivering applications swiftly is one of the major challenges faced in fast-paced business environments. Windows Server 2016 DevOps is the solution to these challenges as it helps organizations to respond faster in order to handle the competitive pressures by replacing error-prone manual tasks using automation. This book is a practical description and implementation of DevOps principles and practices using the features provided by Windows Server 2016 and VSTS vNext. It jumps straight into explaining the relevant tools and technologies needed to implement DevOps principles and practices. It implements all major DevOps practices and principles and takes readers through it from envisioning a project up to operations and further. It uses the latest and upcoming concepts and technologies from Microsoft and open source such as Docker, Windows Container, Nano Server, DSC, Pester, and VSTS vNext. By the end of this book, you will be well aware of the DevOps principles and practices and will have implemented all these principles practically for a sample application using the latest technologies on the Microsoft platform. You will be ready to start implementing DevOps within your project/engagement.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
DevOps with Windows Server 2016
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgments
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 11. Monitoring and Measuring

"If you can't measure it, you can't improve it" - Lord Kelvin

Wonderful! If you have reached here, trust me that you know quite a lot about DevOps both from an understanding and implementation perspective. This is the last chapter of this book, and we have covered all the major pillars of DevOps. We have covered the concepts and activities essential for the DevOps implementation and to make it work effectively and efficiently. There are other activities such as automated testing and coded UI tests, that were not covered in this book. They have been amply covered elsewhere on the Internet.

This chapter will discuss at length the concepts and implementation related to monitoring and measuring the different aspects of applications and environments on the production environment. Monitoring and measuring is an important activity within the DevOps life cycle as it helps in capturing the telemetry in real time about the status of the production environment and...