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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

Creating DSC pull servers

We covered how to install DSC pull servers briefly in Chapter 2, DSC Architecture, by showing an example DSC configuration script and listing several steps to configure the server afterward. If we covered it there, why do we need to devote a chapter to it here? Well, for one, we skipped a lot of detail about how to actually use that DSC configuration. We dived right into an example DSC configuration script, but you couldn't actually use it then because we hadn't yet gotten to Chapter 5, Pushing DSC Configurations, where you learned how to push DSC configurations. Installing the first DSC pull server with DSC is like the chicken and egg problem; you want to use DSC pull servers to deploy DSC configurations and handle all the deployment processes for you, but you need to first push a DSC configuration to install the DSC pull server. It will require...

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