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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

Installing Windows Nano Server on Azure


Similar to Windows Server 2016, there are multiple ways to install and create a Nano Server environment on Azure. Nano Server can be provisioned on Azure through pure PowerShell scripting or through ARM templates. The ARM templates can be deployed through PowerShell. The Windows Server Container environment was provisioned through PowerShell. We will use ARM templates to deploy Nano Server on Azure. The template will remain almost the same as the one used to create a Windows Server 2016 environment with small differences. I will point out these differences as we go along in this section. Nano Server is a new technology on the Windows platform and is introduced with Windows Server 2016. At the time of writing, there are not many features available on Nano Servers since it is an evolving technology with newer features getting introduced frequently. We will describe step by step the process to create a Nano Server and you will be able to create them using...