- Learning PowerShell DSC
- Table of Contents
- Learning PowerShell DSC
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Introduction to PowerShell DSC
- What is PowerShell DSC?
- Why do we need Configuration Management?
- DSC quick wins
- A high level overview of DSC
- Why all the abstraction?
- How does DSC help me?
- DSC features
- PowerShell v4 DSC
- PowerShell v5 DSC
- v5 DSC language extensions
- v5 DSC base resources
- v5 DSC Cmdlets
- v5 improvements
- The PowerShell ISE
- Partial configurations and dependencies
- Class-based DSC Resources
- DSC built-in support for help
- DSC run as credential support
- DSC resource side-by-side installation
- DSC resource script debugging
- The separation of node and configuration IDs
- DSC LCM MetaConfig updates
- DSC LCM rich state information
- DSC LCM RefreshMode values
- DSC status from a central location
- Summary
- 2. DSC Architecture
- 3. DSC Configuration Files
- Defining a DSC configuration script file
- Defining a DSC configuration data file
- Creating reusable DSC configurations
- Debugging and troubleshooting configuration script files
- Summary
- 4. DSC Resources
- What are DSC Resources?
- Creating a custom PowerShell v4 DSC Resource
- Creating a custom PowerShell v5 DSC Resource
- What makes a good DSC Resource
- Testing custom DSC Resources
- How do you find DSC Resources?
- Summary
- 5. Pushing DSC Configurations
- 6. Pulling DSC Configurations
- Creating DSC Pull Servers
- Validating a DSC Pull Server install
- Registering target nodes with a DSC Pull Server
- Pulling DSC configurations with a DSC Pull Server
- DSC Pull Server and target node status
- Summary
- 7. Example Scenarios
- Index
James Pogran has been working with computers in some form or fashion for over 15 years. His first job was systems administration for a large military installation. He then moved on to develop monitoring software and automate large scale Windows environments for a major managed services provider. He is currently a software engineer at Puppet Labs where he helps to make Windows automation even better with Puppet.
Writing a book is no easy task, a technical one about a technology as important and as fast changing as DSC is doubly so. That I was able to do so in a short time was through no small effort by many people. I would first like to thank the PowerShell product team for their awesome work and community outreach, which is truly unique in this industry. I would also like to thank the team at Packt Publishing who worked tirelessly to keep me on schedule and enabled me to be the best I could be. I am also indebted to the technical reviewers who poured over this book and made sure it was the best book possible. I would especially like to thank my wife, Jessica, my mother and father, and Cecil Morris; without their support, I would not have had the courage to write this book at all.
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