Summary

This is the concluding chapter on configuration management, and again a lot of miles were covered in this chapter. This chapter covers the creation of a Pull Server, the configuration deployed on the DSC Pull Server, the configuration of web application virtual machines with a custom Docker image and container, dockerfile for defining a custom Docker image, local configuration manager updates to pull DSC configuration from the Pull Server, and modification of the connection string in web.config. After provisioning and configuring the environment, the chapter explained unit and operational validation tests for them. It provided information about various ways these tests can be executed using Pester and the operational validation module. All the code shown in this chapter is accompanied with the source code and can be used, changed, and extended. This chapter was primarily about building the configuration management and artifacts related to Infrastructure as Code and testing them in...