Chapter 5. Building a Sample Application
In previous chapters, we briefly delved into multiple technologies that enable and help implement DevOps. We discussed tools like Visual Studio Team Services providing continuous integration, deployment, and delivery services; Azure Infrastructure as a Service, providing infrastructure and platform services to provision and host environments needed during software development phases like development, testing, pre-production, and production; declarative and imperative scripting languages such as JSON, ARM Templates, PowerShell, Desired State Configuration, and Pester to automate provisioning, configuration and the testing of environments. We experienced newer platforms introduced with Windows Server 2016 including Nano Server and Windows Containers for hosting applications as well.
This chapter will provide an overview of a sample web-based application named Online Pharmacy built using ASP.NET MVC and Azure SQL. The goal of application...