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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

Managing a Git Repository using VSTS


After onboarding the OnlinePharmacy solution on the VSTS Git repository, it's time to work on it as a developer. A developer typically will push his/her code to the repository and pull code submitted by others as well. This involves merging code and solving any arising conflict resolution.

Submitting code changes to a Git repository

This section provides steps for some of the common tasks performed by developers on an ongoing basis while they are building an application and changing code frequently.

  1. Modify the OnlinePharmacy code in Visual Studio after opening the solution. In Figure 15, a sample modification is done to Details.cshtml file by adding a <h2> tag and some text along with it. Save the code changes.

    Figure 15: Modifying code

  2. From the Team Explorer home screen, click on the Changes button. It will navigate to the Changes screen, listing modifications to all files in the local repository. Since there is a single change in our case, the Details...