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 practice.