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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468550
Length 558 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ritesh Modi Ritesh Modi
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Preface 1. Introducing DevOps 2. DevOps Tools and Technologies FREE CHAPTER 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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