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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 Git for Windows on the development environment


Visual Studio needs the Git toolkit to manage local repositories and interact with remote repositories. The Git for Windows tool available at https://Git-scm.com/ is used in this book to work with the Git repository. This utility is not available on Windows operating systems and not installed along with Visual Studio. It can be downloaded and installed separately on the development environment from the provided URL. This is also shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4: Git for Windows download URL

The setup can be executed after having been saved on a local disk or run directly. Figure 5 shows the major steps for installing Git for Windows on a Windows 10 development workstation.

Figure 5: Git for Windows installation steps