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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

Virtualization


If we look back at the history of computing, the 1970s were dominated by mainframe computing. During the 80s and 90s, personal computing and client-server technology was the flavor. The first decade of this century was characterized by two major trends: virtualization and mobile computing. Today, we are again in midst of trend-changing phenomena with the concept of containerization of applications and services.

To understand Containers better, let's take a step back and understand virtualization. Virtualization was a breakthrough innovation that completely changed the way physical servers were looked at. It refers to the abstraction of a physical object into a logical object. Virtualization of physical servers enabled the creation of multiple virtual servers, better known as virtual machines. These virtual machines consumed and shared the same physical CPU, memory, storage, and other hardware with the physical server on which they were hosted. This enabled faster and easier...