The Microsoft PowerShell Gallery is a central repository for PowerShell modules and DSC resources and is the premier choice for consuming and deploying DSC resources. The PowerShell Gallery contains useful PowerShell modules and DSC resources that you can use on all your target servers. Not all of the content in the Gallery will be from Microsoft; some of it will be community contributed content. It is recommended that you test and inspect all content downloaded from the Gallery.

When we use the word repository here, we mean software repository, not software version control such as when we were talking about Git in the previous section.

To use the PowerShell Gallery, you must use a new feature of PowerShell called PackageManagement. PackageManagement is a software package manager that manages packages. All jokes aside, PackageManagement is a powerful solution to the problem of finding, downloading, and installing PowerShell modules onto Windows target nodes.