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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

Test-ARMTemplate.ps1


After preparing the common services and uploading the relevant scripts and templates to the Azure storage, it's time to start the process of deployment of the sample application. The entire infrastructure and application deployment is done through ARM template. The ARM template is responsible for provisioning resources on Azure and running scripts on virtual machines to configure them with the DSC Pull Server, Docker container, deploying the application and connecting it to the Azure SQL Server. However, before the ARM template is executed, it should be tested for its validity. The purpose of Test-ARMTemplate is to create a new resource group for the sample application and validate the OnlineMedicine.json ARM template. This script is executed from the release pipeline. The code for the entire script is shown next.

param(
    [string] $ARMTemplatePath,
    [string] $ARMTemplateParametersPath,
    [string] $resourceGroupName,
    [string] $OMSWorkspaceName,
    [string...