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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 7. Configuration Management

The previous chapter introduced Source Code Configuration Management (SCCM). This chapter is a continuation of the earlier chapter, and it introduces infrastructure and application configuration management. An emerging concept in infrastructure configuration management is Infrastructure as Code (IaC). It helps in bringing a high degree of consistency, predictability, and standardization not only in designing, developing, provisioning, and deployment of infrastructure but also in easing maintenance and upgrades on an ongoing basis. One of the major DevOps principles is configuration management related to infrastructure and application. Chapter 5, Building a Sample Application introduced Online Medicine as a sample application. The same application will be provisioned, deployed, and configured end to end as part of this chapter.