This was a technology-heavy chapter and we covered different technologies that will help in automation of provisioning and managing environments. We started with Azure Resource Manager and its features and concepts. Then, we moved on to Azure Resource Manager templates, described various components of templates and how to author them, constructed a simple minimal template, used tools for authoring templates and then deployed them through PowerShell. Then, we discussed PowerShell as a command-line and scripting language that helps in automation and administration of infrastructure and environment. We also discussed some of its most important concepts like variables, pipelines, cmdlets, scripts, and modules. We covered the PowerShell script unit testing tool, Pester. We tried to understand Pester and its concepts using two examples. Finally, we discussed Desired State Configuration as a configuration platform with its Pull and Push architecture, their process flow, and ways to use...
DevOps with Windows Server 2016
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
Free Chapter
Introducing DevOps
DevOps Tools and Technologies
DevOps Automation Primer
Nano, Containers, and Docker Primer
Building a Sample Application
Source Code Control
Configuration Management
Configuration Management and Operational Validation
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery and Deployment
Monitoring and Measuring
Customer Reviews