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Learning PowerShell DSC

You're reading from   Learning PowerShell DSC Automate deployment and configuration of your servers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787287242
Length 272 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Introducing PowerShell DSC FREE CHAPTER 2. DSC Architecture 3. DSC Configuration Files 4. DSC Resources 5. Pushing DSC Configurations 6. Pulling DSC Configurations 7. DSC Cross Platform Support 8. Example Scenarios

Locally pushing DSC configurations

What do we mean by "pushing DSC configurations locally?" When we apply a DSC configuration to the computer we are logged into, we are applying or pushing the DSC configuration onto the computer. We call it pushing because we are actively copying the MOF file and triggering an execution on the target node; we are active participants in the whole process. The Start-DSCConfiguration cmdlet does the work for us, but we are actively requesting the operations to be performed. This is clear when we contrast this with a DSC pull server. The DSC engine on the target node pulls the DSC configuration when an execution run is scheduled, whereas we push the DSC configuration to the target node when we want to execute it interactively using Start-DSCConfiguration.

The Start-DSCConfiguration cmdlet syntax we will be using is this:

Start-DSCConfiguration...
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