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DevOps with Windows Server 2016

You're reading from DevOps with Windows Server 2016 Obtain enterprise agility and continuous delivery by implementing DevOps with Windows Server 2016

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786468550

Length 558 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Windows Server

Concepts

Continuous Delivery

Author (1):

Ritesh Modi

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing DevOps FREE CHAPTER

2. DevOps Tools and Technologies

3. DevOps Automation Primer

4. Nano, Containers, and Docker Primer

5. Building a Sample Application

6. Source Code Control

7. Configuration Management

8. Configuration Management and Operational Validation

9. Continuous Integration

10. Continuous Delivery and Deployment

11. Monitoring and Measuring

Types of releases

There are two ways in which VSTS can be configured to execute releases:

Scheduled release
Continuous deployment

We have been discussing continuous deployment in this chapter, and the next section talks about scheduled releases.

Scheduled releases

A scheduled release refers to automatic release pipeline execution at a predetermined schedule. Multiple schedules can be configured for each release pipeline and can include multiple source repositories. The release pipeline will execute at a given schedule and is not dependent on changes done to the code in the repository. These types of release pipelines are generally used on weekends during off-hours when generally there is no activity on the repository. The scheduling of a release is shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: Scheduled release pipeline

In Figure 3, a release has been scheduled to run at 3 a.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Continuous deployment

Continuous deployment refers to the execution of release pipeline...

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Authors (1)

Modi

Modi

Ritesh Modi is a technologist with more than 18 years of experience. He holds a master's degree in science in AI/ML from LJMU. He has been recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director for his contributions to building tech communities, products, and services. He has published more than 10 tech books in the past and is a cloud architect, speaker, and leader who is popular for his contributions to data centers, Azure, Kubernetes, blockchain, cognitive services, DevOps, AI, and automation.

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