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DevOps with Windows Server 2016
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DevOps with Windows Server 2016: Obtain enterprise agility and continuous delivery by implementing DevOps with Windows Server 2016

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DevOps with Windows Server 2016

Chapter 2. DevOps Tools and Technologies

In the previous chapter, we looked at the problems faced by organizations in delivering software services to customers. We understood the meaning of DevOps and the way it addresses the challenges of software delivery. We went through the principles on which DevOps is based and discussed the practices through which DevOps achieves its end goal.

This book is about the practical implementation of DevOps through technology. Technology is an enabler for DevOps. Technology helps DevOps in the following ways:

  • Enables faster collaboration and communication among teams, making them more efficient and effective.
  • Helps in faster, better, and automated process implementation.
  • Consistent and predictable automated delivery. Brings higher cadence and confidence in the delivery process.
  • Feedback backed up by telemetry.
  • Agile deployments.

This chapter and the following two chapters will introduce core platforms and technologies instrumental in enabling and implementing DevOps...

Cloud technology


Cloud is ubiquitous. It is used throughout this book. Cloud is used in this book for hosting all environments, implementation of DevOps practices, and deployment of applications.

Cloud is a relatively new paradigm in infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and hosting space. The only options prior to the advent of cloud was either self-hosted on on-premises data centers or using services from a hosting service provider. However, cloud is changing the way enterprises look at their strategy in relation to infrastructure and application development, deployment, and hosting. In fact, the change is so enormous that it has found its way into every aspect of an organization's software development processes, tools, and practices.

Cloud computing refers to the practice of deploying applications and services on the Internet with a cloud provider. A cloud provider provides multiple types of services on cloud. They are divided into three categories based on their level of...

Windows Server 2016


Windows Server 2016 has come a long way. All the way from Windows NT to Windows 2000 and 2003, then Windows 2008 (R2) and 2012 (R2), and now Windows Server 2016. Windows NT was the first popular Windows server among enterprises. However, the true enterprise servers were Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. The popularity of Windows Server 2003 was unprecedented and it was widely adopted. With Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, the idea of the data center took priority and enterprises with their own data center adopted it. Even the Windows Server 2008 series was quite popular among enterprises. In 2010, the Microsoft Cloud, Azure, was launched.

The first steps towards a cloud operating system were Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2. They had the blueprints and technology to be seamlessly provisioned on Azure. Now, when Azure and cloud are gaining enormous popularity, Windows Server 2016 is released as a true cloud operating system. The evolution of Windows Server is shown in Figure...

Application platform


Windows Server 2016 comes with multiple options for deploying and hosting applications. It provides the following:

  • Windows Server 2016
  • Nano Server
  • Windows and Docker Containers
  • Hyper-V Containers
  • Nested virtual machines

Windows Server as a hosting platform

Windows Server 2016 can be used for hosting applications and consuming server functionalities. It provides the services necessary to make applications secure, scalable, and highly available. It also provides services like virtualization, directory services, certificate services, web server, databases that help in building enterprise scale applications and services.

Nano servers

Windows Server provides a new option to host applications and services called Nano servers. This is a new lightweight, scaled-down Windows Server containing only the kernel and drivers necessary to run as an operating system. They are also known as headless servers. They do not have any graphical user interface and the only way to interact and manage...

Visual Studio Team Services


Now it's time to focus on another revolutionary online service - Visual Studio Team Services - that seamlessly enables continuous integration, continuous deployment, and continuous delivery. In fact, it would be more appropriate to call it a suite of services available under a single name. VSTS is a PaaS provided by Microsoft and hosted on cloud. The same service is available as (Team Foundation Server (TFS) on on-premises data centers. All examples used in this book use VSTS.

According to Microsoft, VSTS is a cloud-based collaboration platform that helps teams share code, track work, and shipping software. It was previously known as Visual Studio Online (VSO) and recently been renamed as VSTS. It is an enterprise software development tool and service that enables organizations to provide automation facilities to their end-to-end application lifecycle management process, from planning, to deployment, to getting real-time feedback from software systems users. This...

Azure account


The primary prerequisite for creating an account with Microsoft Azure is to either have a Microsoft or a Student/Work account. In the preceding section, we looked at how to create a Microsoft account. Once you have a valid account, navigate to https://account.windowsazure.com from your browser. Click on the SIGN IN button in the extreme top-right corner of the page. This is shown in Figure 38:

Figure 38: Azure start page for creating a subscription

This will navigate to the login page for your Microsoft or Work/School account. I used an Outlook account to obtain a subscription and tenant from Azure. This is shown in Figure 39:

Figure 39: Azure login screen

Logging into Azure will take you to the screen shown in Figure 40. Click on the Sign up link:

Figure 40: Sign up with Azure

This will show the details of your account. It will also ask you to verify your credit card and validate your account via your phone. This is shown in Figure 41. Once you have accepted the agreement...

Summary


We have covered a lot of ground in this chapter. The first chapter introduced DevOps concepts and this chapter discussed mapping technology to those concepts. In this chapter, we saw the impetus DevOps can get from technology. We looked at cloud computing and the different services provided by cloud providers. From there, we went on to look at the benefits Windows Server 2016 brings to DevOps practices and how Windows Server 2016 makes DevOps easier and faster with its native tools and features. Towards the end of the chapter, we explored VSTS, which forms the core for DevOps practices, by implementing continuous integration, continuous deployment, and delivery. You should now have a good grasp of the tools and technology used to implement DevOps. We created an account in VSTS for our DevOps process and created a subscription on Azure used for hosting our platform and application.

In the following chapter, we will get into the details of each of these technologies and use them in...

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Key benefits

  • This practical learning guide will improve your application lifecycle management and help you manage environments efficiently
  • Showcase through a sample application ways to apply DevOps principles and practices in the real world
  • Implement DevOps using latest technologies in Windows Server 2016 such as Windows Container, Docker, and Nano Servers

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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.

Who is this book for?

This book is for .NET developers and system administrators who have a basic knowledge of Windows Server 2016 and are now eager to implement DevOps at work using Windows Server 2016. Knowledge of Powershell, Azure, and containers will help.

What you will learn

  • * Take a deep dive into the fundamentals, principles, and practices of DevOps
  • * Achieve an end-to-end DevOps implementation
  • * Execute source control management using GITHUB and VSTS vNext
  • * Automate the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure
  • * Build and release pipeline
  • * Measure the success of DevOps through application instrumentation and monitoring
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