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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)

Complicated deployments

The time saved from the automated deployment of both DSC resources and DSC configuration scripts, along with configuration status reporting, was of enough value to allow you to finally start working on those things you would do if only you had the time. You're leaving on time nowadays and coworkers are lining up to take advantage of being added to your list of managed servers.

The target node count has increased significantly. Since you started this project, the company has grown and the Apollo application is handling more requests than ever. The application team decides that the available time for new features is being compromised by having to deploy the company website code named Aurora by themselves. After talking with your boss, both your teams decide to hand off deploying Aurora to you. A couple of knowledge transfer sessions happen later and...