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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

Steps for deployment for an IT administrator


Before an IT administrator can provision centralized resources, he should be aware of the Azure tenant and subscription ID. He must also have owner privileges on the subscription. All common and centralized services are provisioned within an Azure resource group.  These services are provisioned by executing PowerShell scripts and Azure resource manager templates. The GeneralServices.json template is deployed by an IT administrator to provision the Key Vault and Operational Insights workspace. The following steps should be executed for successful end-to-end provisioning, deployment, and configuration of common services. The administrator starts with the PreCreate.ps1 PowerShell script  and executes the ARM template for provisioning of resources. PreCreate.ps1 is the starting script for an administrator to start the provisioning process. Before executing any of the steps mentioned next in this and the next chapter, please ensure that the latest...