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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

The IT administrator and deployment role


The IT administrator is responsible for provisioning infrastructure and services that are reused and consumed by multiple applications within the enterprise. The services provisioned by the IT administrator include centralized monitoring and log management, provisioning of Key Vaults, storage accounts, and service accounts that are consumed by individual application and release management to perform their deployment and management operations in their environments. Access to these services are constrained and limited to authorized administrators only.

An IT administrator will log in to the Azure subscription with his credentials and create a new Azure AD application, an Azure AD service application, and provide the owner's permissions to the service application on the subscription. Individual application owners and release management will use this Azure AD service application to log in to Azure and perform management actions to deploy, update, and configure...