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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

Why continuous integration?


Continuous integration brings in multiple advantages to the project implementing it. Every project has a finite budget, resources, and time. Projects are executed within these constraints. One of the goals of every enterprise is to optimize within these constraints, and bring out quality software products and services while reducing risks. Continuous integration helps in optimizing these constraints and streamlining the build and test process using automation.

Continuous integration automates the build and test process through build pipelines.

There are many advantages of implementing continuous integration. Some of the major advantages of continuous integration are mentioned here.

Fail fast and often

When a developer checks-in their code, the code is merged and integrated, and an automated build pipeline is executed to validate the correctness of the code and its outputs. If there is any bug, error, or issue, it is communicated to the developer in detail. The developer...