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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

Continuous deployment


Continuous deployment is a DevOps practice, and it refers to the practice of deployment of software artifacts to a new or existing production environment after ensuring that the application meets all the functional and technical requirements/specifications, deployed on multiple environments with no major issues or bugs. The definition is very similar to continuous delivery; however, an astute reader should have figured out that continuous deployment refers to the deployment and configuration of the environment and software on the production environment. Although continuous delivery is about being ready with regard to the application and environment by deploying the application on multiple environments, continuous deployment is about ensuring that the same artifacts are used for the production environment. The beauty of continuous deployment can be appreciated when a single change in the code is reflected on production after the changes undergo all the quality checks...