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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

Real-life DSC usage

After coming this far, you're on the bandwagon and are ready to implement DSC in your production environment. You're the admin for numerous servers and you want to start getting things in order right away. You've talked it over with your boss and you both know there isn't enough room on the VM server for a dedicated instance just to stand up to the DSC pull server when it hasn't proven itself yet. You've agreed to start out with pushing DSC configurations to show progress and, in a month, re-evaluate what the progress is.

When you open the list of servers you manage, you notice that there is a mix of Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 R2. A sigh of relief escapes your mouth when you remember the last of the old Windows 2003 servers were migrated off a couple months ago in preparation for the end of life cutoff that happens this year...

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