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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

We have come a long way from where we started. We covered what configuration management is and what desired state really means. We heard a thing or two about DevOps and what it takes to utilize its practices in your day-to-day roles. You learned the ins and outs of how CM products approach configuration management and then how PowerShell DSC does it.

We dove right into the deep end of the DSC pool by covering its feature set across the two different versions that have been released so far, and then we went further down the rabbit hole in discovering what push and pull modes mean. We used the push model to deploy software and set the configuration of target nodes on demand. We set up DSC pull servers to automate DSC resource and DSC configuration script distribution, centralize the management of our target nodes, and create a central reporting system for the configuration...