Creating a compute cluster with DSC

To automatically create a Hyper-V compute cluster you could use DSC. This recipe shows you how to create a two-node and domain-joined cluster. Please note that DSC is a feature of Windows PowerShell. This recipe cannot be completed using only PowerShell Core.

Getting ready

We will be using the lab VMs, PACKT-HV1 and PACKT-HV2.

How to do it...

Let's perform the following steps:

1. We start the configuration data, so create a hashtable for DSC:

$confData = @{
    # Reserved Key first
    AllNodes = @( )
}

2. Inside the AllNodes key, add...