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Learning PowerShell DSC

You're reading from Learning PowerShell DSC Automate deployment and configuration of your servers

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787287242

Length 272 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

PowerShell

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

James Pogran

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

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

Summary

In this chapter, we identified the three phases of DSC use and two different deployment models. We then covered how the phases and models work together to comprise the architecture of DSC. And lastly, we covered how the LCM and pull server work separately and together.

In the next chapter, you will learn about the syntax of DSC configuration scripts and data files, how to debug and troubleshoot authoring them, and their general best practices.

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Authors (1)

James Pogran

James Pogran

James Pogran has been working with computers in one way or another for over 15 years. His first job involved 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 senior software engineer at Puppet, Inc where he helps to make Windows automation even better with Puppet.

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