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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


This is the concluding chapter on configuration management, and again a lot of miles were covered in this chapter. This chapter covers the creation of a Pull Server, the configuration deployed on the DSC Pull Server, the configuration of web application virtual machines with a custom Docker image and container, dockerfile for defining a custom Docker image, local configuration manager updates to pull DSC configuration from the Pull Server, and modification of the connection string in web.config. After provisioning and configuring the environment, the chapter explained unit and operational validation tests for them. It provided information about various ways these tests can be executed using Pester and the operational validation module. All the code shown in this chapter is accompanied with the source code and can be used, changed, and extended. This chapter was primarily about building the configuration management and artifacts related to Infrastructure as Code and testing them in...