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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

Cloud technology


Cloud is ubiquitous. It is used throughout this book. Cloud is used in this book for hosting all environments, implementation of DevOps practices, and deployment of applications.

Cloud is a relatively new paradigm in infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and hosting space. The only options prior to the advent of cloud was either self-hosted on on-premises data centers or using services from a hosting service provider. However, cloud is changing the way enterprises look at their strategy in relation to infrastructure and application development, deployment, and hosting. In fact, the change is so enormous that it has found its way into every aspect of an organization's software development processes, tools, and practices.

Cloud computing refers to the practice of deploying applications and services on the Internet with a cloud provider. A cloud provider provides multiple types of services on cloud. They are divided into three categories based on their level of...