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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

Adding a project to the VSTS Git repository using the command-line tool


Since we already have the base code developed, this section will provide the steps to add existing source code to a GIT repository in VSTS.

Cloning and adding a solution to VSTS Git repository using the Git command-line tool

This example is similar to the previous example as explained in the Adding Online Pharmacy to the VSTS Git repository using Visual Studio 2015 section of this chapter; the difference between these two examples is that the previous example used the Visual Studio user interface while this example uses the Git for Windows tool to work with the VSTS Git repository. The steps are shown here:

  1. Navigate to your VSTS account, log in, and create a new project by clicking on the New team project menu item. This is shown in Figure 33.

    Figure 33: Creating a new VSTS project

  2. Provide ProjectCloneExampleGIT as the Project name, an appropriate Description, Agile as the Process template value, and Git as Version control...