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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.

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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
DevOps with Windows Server 2016
DevOps with Windows Server 2016
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Customer Feedback
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introducing DevOps
Introducing DevOps
Software delivery challenges
What is DevOps?
DevOps principles
DevOps practices
Measuring DevOps
Summary
2
DevOps Tools and Technologies
DevOps Tools and Technologies
Cloud technology
Windows Server 2016
Application platform
Visual Studio Team Services
Azure account
Summary
3
DevOps Automation Primer
DevOps Automation Primer
Azure Resource Manager
Azure Resource Manager templates
PowerShell
Pester
Desired State Configuration
Summary
4
Nano, Containers, and Docker Primer
Nano, Containers, and Docker Primer
Virtualization
Containers
Installing a Windows Server 2016 Container on Azure
Installing Windows Nano Server on Azure
Using Docker client
Understanding Dockerfile
Summary
5
Building a Sample Application
Building a Sample Application
Experiencing the application
Application architecture
Preparing development environment
Understanding Visual Studio Solution
Entity Framework
Controllers and Views
Configuration management
Unit testing
Summary
6
Source Code Control
Source Code Control
Configuration Management
Source Configuration Management
Visual Studio Team Services
Git 101
Installing Git for Windows on the development environment
Adding Online Pharmacy to the VSTS Git repository using Visual Studio 2015
Managing a Git Repository using VSTS
Adding a project to the VSTS Git repository using the command-line tool
Summary
7
Configuration Management
Configuration Management
Infrastructure as Code
Revisiting sample application architecture
Azure virtual machines and containers
Azure public load balancer
Azure SQL
Security considerations
The IT administrator and deployment role
Steps for deployment for an IT administrator
Steps for deployment of the operator or release pipeline
UploadScriptFiles.ps1
Test-ARMTemplate.ps1
New-TemplateDeployment.ps1
OnlineMedicine.parameters.json
OnlineMedicine.json
Summary
8
Configuration Management and Operational Validation
Configuration Management and Operational Validation
Steps for deployment through the release pipeline
Environment unit tests
Environment operational validation
Summary
9
Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration
Continuous integration
Why continuous integration?
Principles of Continuous Integration
Continuous integration process
Types of continuous integration
Integration with source code configuration management
Integration with work item management
Build definition
Build pipeline execution
Summary
10
Continuous Delivery and Deployment
Continuous Delivery and Deployment
Understanding releases
Release management
Continuous delivery
Continuous deployment
Why continuous delivery and deployment?
The principles of continuous deployment
Continuous deployment process
Continuous delivery process
Alternate strategies
Types of releases
Azure Resource Manager service endpoint
Release pipeline definition
Release pipeline execution
Release pipeline strategies
Summary
11
Monitoring and Measuring
Monitoring and Measuring
Application Insights
Operational Insights
Summary

OnlineMedicine.parameters.json

There are multiple ways to send parameters to ARM templates. One of the ways we saw earlier was by sending parameters using PowerShell. Another option is to send parameters to the ARM template is by way of the json file. In this json file, the parameters section contains all the parameters with their corresponding values. While deploying the template, New-AzureRMResourceGroupDeployment. TemplateParameterFile argument can be used to specify the parameters file. All parameters defined in the parameters file will be passed as parameters to the ARM template. Also, this is an ideal approach to send Azure Key Vault-related parameters and their values to the template. The OnlineMedicine.parameters.json file contains only parameters related to values that are stored in the Azure Key Vault. The vault is referred using its unique identifier, and there is a special capability provided by templates to refer to the Azure Key Vault using reference keywords.

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