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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 delivery and deployment?


Software development is inherently a difficult exercise because it involves multiple processes, practices, and people. Some of the prominent reasons to adopt continuous delivery and deployment are mentioned next.

Detecting deployment issues early

As mentioned before, continuous delivery and deployment conduct frequent deployments to multiple environments. When a developer checks in their code, an automated build pipeline is executed, and after the build pipeline completes, deployment is conducted on a test environment where functional and technical verification and validation is performed. If there is any bug, error, or issue in deploying and configuring the environment and application, immediate feedback is provided to the developer informing about the failure. The developer can find the issue and fix it, thus ensuring that the release process does not fail and, at the same time, meets the functional correctness of the solution.

Eliminating surprises...