The DSC pull server is your one-stop central solution for managing a large environment using DSC. In the beginning of this chapter, we talked about the two deployment modes of DSC: push and pull. A DSC pull server operates with target nodes configured to be in the pull deployment mode. We covered the DSC pull server superficially in Chapter 1, Introducing PowerShell DSC, and we will cover it again in Chapter 6, Pulling DSC Configurations, concerning specific deployment topics. In this section, we will describe it in depth from an architectural standpoint.
The DSC pull server
What is a DSC pull server?
A DSC pull server is an IIS website that exposes an OData endpoint that responds to requests from the LCM configured on each...
