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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


We have covered a lot of ground in this chapter. The first chapter introduced DevOps concepts and this chapter discussed mapping technology to those concepts. In this chapter, we saw the impetus DevOps can get from technology. We looked at cloud computing and the different services provided by cloud providers. From there, we went on to look at the benefits Windows Server 2016 brings to DevOps practices and how Windows Server 2016 makes DevOps easier and faster with its native tools and features. Towards the end of the chapter, we explored VSTS, which forms the core for DevOps practices, by implementing continuous integration, continuous deployment, and delivery. You should now have a good grasp of the tools and technology used to implement DevOps. We created an account in VSTS for our DevOps process and created a subscription on Azure used for hosting our platform and application.

In the following chapter, we will get into the details of each of these technologies and use them in...