First and foremost, you must understand how DSC gets the information required to configure a target node from the place it's currently stored to the target node. This may sound counter-intuitive; you may be thinking we should be covering syntax or the different file formats in use first. Before we get to where we're going, we have to know how we are getting there.
The more established CM products available on the market have coalesced into two approaches: push and pull. Push and pull refer to the directions and methods used to move information from the place where it is stored to the target nodes. It also describes the direction commands being sent to or received by the target nodes.
Most CM products primarily use the pull method, which means they rely on agents to schedule, distribute, and rectify configurations on target nodes but have a central...
