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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

Continuous delivery


Continuous delivery is a DevOps practice. It refers to adopting the practice of generating quality application artifacts that are readily deployable in new or existing environments by executing quality checks on both the code and functionality by ensuring that the application meets both technical and functional specifications. Continuous delivery also ensures that the code in the main branch is always in a state that is readily deployable to any environment including a production environment. It helps in achieving a state that makes sure that the build and quality of software meets the specification and there are no surprises or risks in it being used for deployment to a production environment. It can also be referred as a state of readiness for the application code and configuration.

Application developers continually change code and to ensure that changes are acceptable only when they meet the functional and technical specification, they are deployed to an environment...