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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

Continuous integration


Continuous integration refers to the process of generating final deployable code packages because of changes in the source code. The goal of continuous integration is to keep the source code in a state that is always ready for deployment. The process can run at scheduled intervals, on demand, and whenever there is a change in the source code. The process consists of multiple tasks, and each task is responsible for executing a functionality. These functionalities include activities such as compiling code, unit testing, code coverage, code quality, and so on. Code changes can induce bugs and break the functionality of the application. Continuous integration ensures that code changes are compiled and tested immediately. It also ensures that immediate feedback is provided to the team in the case of failure. This can help teams take pro-active actions on fixing the issue. Continuous integration is executed by means of a build pipeline.