Learning Powershell DSC

Get started with the fundamentals of PowerShell DSC and utilize its power to automate deployment and configuration of your servers

Key Features

Book Description

Windows PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language designed especially for system administration. PowerShell DSC is a new management platform that enables you to deploy and manage configuration data for software services and manage the environment in which these services run. This book begins with an overview of the basics of PowerShell DSC by covering the architecture and components of the Desired Sate Configuration. It will then familiarize you with the set of PowerShell language extensions and new PowerShell commands. It will help you understand and create DSC configurations with the help of practical examples, and to create DSC custom resources for your custom applications. Finally, you will learn to deploy a real world application using PowerShell DSC. By the end of the book, you will have better knowledge about the powerful Desired State Configuration platform, which helps you to achieve continuous delivery, and efficient management and easy deployment of data for systems.

What you will learn

• Understand configuration management and why you need it
• Craft flexible, reusable, and maintainable configuration scripts for thousands of servers
• Create custom DSC resources to manage any application or server setting
• Apply configuration data to deploy applications to different environments
• Utilize DSC push deployments to test your configuration scripts and custom DSC resources
• Install, configure and use DSC pull servers
• Run a Windows MSI package
• Deploy a website

Who this book is for

This book is intended for system administrators, developers, or engineers who are responsible for configuration management and automation and wish to learn PowerShell Desired State Configuration for efficient management, configuration and deployment of systems and applications.