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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

Installing a Windows Server 2016 Container on Azure


There are multiple ways to install and create a Container environment on Windows Server 2016 on Azure. The environment can be provisioned through pure PowerShell scripting, .NET, Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) or through ARM templates. The ARM templates can be deployed through multiple technologies, including PowerShell. We will create development, testing, and pre-production environments coding, running, testing, and deploying our custom web-based application on Windows Containers. We will describe the step-by-step process to create a Container environment using Windows Server 2016. The steps for building a Container environment on Windows 10 are exactly the same as for Windows Server 2016. All our environment apart from the development environment will be based on Windows Server 2016. The development environment will be on Windows 10. Docker is also introducing a Docker for Windows installer for creating a Docker environment on the...