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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)

Installing software

Time goes on, and your boss is impressed with the speed at which you are able to provision new servers on demand and replace faulty ones as they break. He/she notices, however, that the response time drops off severely after you hand off the servers to the application team to install the company's custom software. After discussing it with the application team, you are cleared to codify the installation requirements and configuration for the company's application called Apollo and add it to your DSC configuration. Since you've already added the base installation requirements to the DSC configuration script, it's a simple matter to add the MSI installation steps for the Apollo application.

The Apollo application is only supposed to be installed on the app servers, so you need a way to tell DSC not to install it on any other target node. You...