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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

Configuration management


A new class library project is added to host all configuration management related scripts, templates and configuration. It has four folders

  • DSCScripts: This folder contains all Desired State Configuration related scripts
  • PSScript: This folder contains all PowerShell scripts
  • Templates: This folder contains Azure Resource Manager Templates and DockerFile
  • Tests: This folder contains Pester unit and Operational Validation tests

All these files in the project are discussed in details from Chapter 7, Configuration Management, to Chapter 10, Continuous Delivery and Deployment.