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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

Application Insights


As the name suggests, Azure Application Insights provides insights about the health of an application. The insights relevant for a web application would include the incoming number of requests per second, requests failed per second, CPU utilization, memory availability, and much more. Application Insights provides a dashboard, reports, and charts to view various metrics related to the application's health. This helps in viewing and understanding the trends in terms of usage of the application, its availability, and usage to take both precautionary as well as reactive actions on the application. Trends information can be used to find out things not working in favor of the application and things working in its favor over a period of time.

The first step in working with Application Insights is to provision this service on Azure within a resource group. We will provision this service in the same resource group that contains shared resources consumed by all the applications...