- Carl Sagan
In Chapter 5, Pushing DSC Configurations, we covered how to push a DSC configuration to a target node using Start-DscConfiguration. This method required a lot of steps to be performed each time you provisioned a new target node as well as a few repetitive steps each time you pushed a new DSC configuration to it. Some of it could be scripted away, but it required extra work out of you to accomplish the automation. A DSC pull server provides features that remove the responsibility of automating these steps away from you and performs them itself, saving both time and effort. Through the course of this chapter, we will cover the ways in which DSC pull servers will help you in managing the configuration of your target nodes as well as reducing the amount of work...