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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

Release pipeline definition


VSTS provides a very intuitive user interface to define and build the release pipeline definition. The release definition comprises multiple discrete environments. Each environment block generally represents deployment to an environment. Examples of environments include test environments, staging environments, production environments, or any other environment. Each environment consists of multiple tasks that execute one after another as part of the overall deployment process. The transition from one environment to another is based on the approval workflow. Every project and solution has its unique requirements about its release process. Continuous deployment does not provide any specification regarding elements that should go into a release pipeline. Continuous deployment states that for it to be effective, it should have tasks that ensure that deployments are conducted and tested in an automated fashion.

A sample release process for our sample Online Medicine...