What you need for this book
This book assumes a basic level knowledge on Windows operating system, cloud computing and application development using a web programming language, and moderate experience with the application development life cycle. The book will go through deployment of a sample application on Azure within Windows Containers using a set of virtual machine. This requires a basic understanding of cloud storage, computing, networking, and virtualization concepts on Azure. The book implements DevOps practices using Visual Studio Team Services and basic knowledge of this is expected, although this book tries to cover its foundations. If you have experience with Azure and Visual Studio Team Services, this is a big plus.
A valid Azure subscription and Visual Studio Team Services subscription is needed to get started with this book. They are both available free of cost on a trial basis.
As all deployments are made to the cloud, you will require a development environment on a local computer, consisting of:
- CPU: 4 cores
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Disk space: 250 GB
This should be enough for the development environment.
In this book, you will need the following software:
- Azure subscription
- Visual Studio Team Services subscription
- Windows 10 OS build 14393 version 1607 or Windows Server 2016 build 14393
- SQL Server Management Studio version 12 or 13
- Git for Windows 64-bit 2.12.0
- Visual Studio community 2015 SP 3 version 14.0
- Docker 1.12.2-cs2-ws-beta
Internet connectivity is required to work with chapters in this book.
