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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

Summary


This was the last chapter of the book and a very important chapter from a DevOps perspective. DevOps will not be effective and efficient without implementing adequate monitoring and measuring. The DevOps feedback loop and chain is incomplete in the absence of monitoring and measuring capabilities. Although monitoring and measuring can be done manually, their true benefits are realized using services such as Application Insights and Operational Insights. Azure provides Application Insights to monitor the availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of applications while Operational Insights helps the same way for environments.

With this, we come to the end of this chapter and book. It is hoped that you were able to comprehend, digest, and implement DevOps concepts, principles, and practices and were able to achieve the benefits to reach out to your customer faster, better, and cheaper with utmost quality. Let's signing off this book with the assumption that you would be...