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Learning PowerShell DSC - Second Edition

By : James Pogran
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Learning PowerShell DSC - Second Edition

By: James Pogran

Overview of this book

The main goal of this book is to teach you to configure, deploy, and manage your system using the new features of PowerShell v5/v6 DSC. This book begins with the basics of PowerShell Desired State Configuration, covering its architecture and components. It familiarizes you with the set of Windows PowerShell language extensions and new Windows PowerShell commands that make up DSC. Then it helps you create DSC custom resources and work with DSC configurations with the help of practical examples. Finally, it describes how to deploy configuration data using PowerShell DSC. Throughout this book, we will be focusing on concepts such as building configurations with parameters, the local configuration manager, and testing and restoring configurations using PowerShell DSC. By the end of the book, you will be able to deploy a real-world application end-to-end and will be familiar enough with the powerful Desired State Configuration platform to achieve continuous delivery and efficiently and easily manage and deploy data for systems.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we covered the syntax of configuration script and data files and how to create and execute them. We covered how to create usable components using DSC composite resources and their pros and cons. We ended our chapter on how to debug and troubleshoot executing DSC configurations.

In the next chapter, we will be covering how to find and use DSC resources. We will also delve into how to create your own custom DSC resources to handle your own unique deployment needs. Then, we will cover some differences in implementation in DSC MOF-based and class-based resources.