We covered how to install DSC pull servers briefly in Chapter 2, DSC Architecture, by showing an example DSC configuration script and listing several steps to configure the server afterward. If we covered it there, why do we need to devote a chapter to it here? Well, for one, we skipped a lot of detail about how to actually use that DSC configuration. We dived right into an example DSC configuration script, but you couldn't actually use it then because we hadn't yet gotten to Chapter 5, Pushing DSC Configurations, where you learned how to push DSC configurations. Installing the first DSC pull server with DSC is like the chicken and egg problem; you want to use DSC pull servers to deploy DSC configurations and handle all the deployment processes for you, but you need to first push a DSC configuration to install the DSC pull server. It will require...
Learning PowerShell DSC - Second Edition
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Learning PowerShell DSC - Second Edition
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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.
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Learning PowerShell DSC - Second Edition
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Introducing PowerShell DSC
DSC Architecture
DSC Configuration Files
DSC Resources
Pushing DSC Configurations
Pulling DSC Configurations
DSC Cross Platform Support
Customer Reviews