One of the earliest concepts we covered in this book was that DSC is a platform that enables the management of target nodes. It's a platform because it provides the low-level tools that higher-level abstractions can take advantage of. An example of this is Puppet or Chef integrating with DSC by directly invoking DSC resources inside their own manifests. A better example is DSC managing more than just Windows operating systems.
Up until now, DSC only installed and managed Windows OS desktop and server platforms. As we covered in the first chapters of this book, DSC comes bundled in the WMF installation for the OS you are using, the latest of which is WMF 5.1. The WMF 5.1 release includes Windows PowerShell 5.1, which is the last major version of Windows PowerShell that will be released. Implied in the name, Windows PowerShell is only installable...