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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

Windows Server 2016


Windows Server 2016 has come a long way. All the way from Windows NT to Windows 2000 and 2003, then Windows 2008 (R2) and 2012 (R2), and now Windows Server 2016. Windows NT was the first popular Windows server among enterprises. However, the true enterprise servers were Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. The popularity of Windows Server 2003 was unprecedented and it was widely adopted. With Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, the idea of the data center took priority and enterprises with their own data center adopted it. Even the Windows Server 2008 series was quite popular among enterprises. In 2010, the Microsoft Cloud, Azure, was launched.

The first steps towards a cloud operating system were Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2. They had the blueprints and technology to be seamlessly provisioned on Azure. Now, when Azure and cloud are gaining enormous popularity, Windows Server 2016 is released as a true cloud operating system. The evolution of Windows Server is shown in Figure...