DevOps for SharePoint: With Packer, Terraform, Ansible, and Vagrant

© Oscar Medina, Ethan Schumann 2018

Oscar Medina and Ethan SchumannDevOps for SharePointhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3688-8_1

1. Introduction

Oscar Medina¹  and Ethan Schumann²

(1)

Lafayette, CA, USA

(2)

Frisco, TX, USA

 

Before we begin exploring the modern DevOps practices in deploying and managing SharePoint, you need to understand what DevOps is.

In this chapter, we discuss DevOps. We put it into context as it relates to SharePoint infrastructure projects, and how we can leverage these practices and tools to ultimately achieve agility, predictability, repeatability in deployments, and cost savings in the maintenance aspect of the platform on-premises or in the cloud.

Note

This book focuses on DevOps as it relates to the infrastructure of SharePoint; ...