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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

Summary


This chapter introduced both continuous deployment and delivery. There is a small difference between these concepts. In fact, achieving continuous delivery automatically will lead to continuous deployment. If you are doing continuous deployment with heavy automation, you are already doing continuous delivery. Continuous delivery is the first step toward continuous deployment. We looked in detail why at both continuous deployment and delivery are important and considered their benefits, and we discussed some of their important principles. They are a mature evolution from executing manual deployment processes to the automated delivery of code and deployment to multiple environments. It's a mechanism to tell developers about issues arising out of deployment and helps in failing earlier than later. These concepts are not complete without the discussion of release definitions and pipelines. Release pipelines are the automation of deployment processes on multiple environments using an...