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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

Handling change

After successfully running DSC in production for all this time, you sit back amazed that all the work you have been doing is addictive. You haven't had to undo work you've previously done to get something new automated, and you can handle the most insane list of requirements life can dish out with ease.

Of course, it wasn't always easy and might have required some extra thought or preparation. It might have required changing how you approached things to something more aligned with the configuration management processes you read in the beginning of the book. DSC didn't have a DSC resource built in for every piece of software in your environment or every task you needed to accomplish, but we can say that for any CM product on the market. The point of any CM is not to provide a way to do everything but to provide a way to do most things, along...

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