WinOps

Getting Started

This index is in an effort to better help direct people new to the winops sphere to see what options are available. This is by no means telling you how to go about automating or architecting your environment in terms of tools. This is just a list of tools and resources I have found useful in my day to day, and has offered me a great foundation to better do my job.

Contributing

Please feel free to branch and PR into here, I would love to keep this a living breathing Document

Resources

Testing Frameworks for Infra and Scripts

• PSScriptAnalyzer
• Pester - Pre-Installed on Windows 10/Server2016
• PoshSpec (Open Source Pester DSL for infratesting - Like ServerSpec)

Deployment Tools

• Octopus Deploy
  • Getting Started
• MsBuild

CI/CD Systems - Orchestration

• Jenkins
• Teamcity
• VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services)
• AppVeyor
• AzureAutomation

Config Mgmt Tools

• Chef
• Ansible
• Powershell DSC
• Puppet
• Rundeck

Cloud Platforms

• Azure
• Google Compute Engine
• AWS

Monitoring Tools

• New Relic
• Graphite
• Microsoft OMS

Blogs + References

• Setting up Powershell Environment
  • Ultimate PowerShell Prompt Customization
• CI/CD Pipelines with Powershell
  • Fun with Github, Pester, and AppVeyor
• Packer + Windows
  • Best Practices with Packer and Windows
  • Creating windows base images using Packer and Boxstarter
• Chef on Windows
  • Setup Windows 10 For Chef and PowerShell DSC Development
  • Setting Up A Windows Workstation for Chef Development - The Easy Way
• Powershell DSC Pipeline with Test Kitchen
  • Introduction to Kitchen-DSC
• Working With Powershell
  • Building a Powershell Module
  • Why Powershell
• Ansible + Windows
  • Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen
• Docker + Windows
  • Setup a Windows Docker CI with AppVeyor
  • Is there a Windows Docker image for ...?
  • Getting started with Docker Swarm-mode on Windows 10
  • Getting started with Windows Containers