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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

Azure virtual machines and containers


Two Azure virtual machines hosting containers for our sample Online Medicine web application are provisioned. Each virtual machine has a network card with a public IP assigned to it. They are attached to a virtual network with a private IP address assigned on the same network. The public IP for virtual machines is optional since they are attached to a public load balancer; however, for the purpose of demonstration and easier debugging, they are assigned to both the virtual machines. They should be removed in enterprise or production deployments. These virtual machines are based on a Windows Server 2016 image with a containers feature. The virtual machines host windows containers and Docker binaries to manage containers and images. Operational Insights agents are installed on virtual machines for monitoring the virtual machines. These agents could have been added to containers as well but that has been left as an exercise for the readers. To add an OMS...