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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

Preparing development environment


In Chapter 3, DevOps Automation Primer, we installed Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition on Windows Server 2016 machine. It is to be noted that the development environment can be Windows 10 machine as well. Windows Server 2016 environment will be used as development environment in this book. Next step in setting up the development environment is provision Azure SQL Server and Database. SQL Server 2014 Management Studio is needed to work with Azure SQL and it can be downloaded from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42299.

Select MgmtStudio 64BITSQLManagementStudio_x64_ENU.exe as shown in Figure 7 here.

Figure 7: SQL Server Management Studio download

Save the executable and extract the setup files to an appropriate location.

One of the prerequisite of SQL Server 2014 Management Studio is the availability of .NET 3.5 runtime on development box. Since our development box is an Azure virtual machine, the Windows Server 2016 image files are...