Friday, January 15, 2016

PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) @ Azure

Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration Overview
"DSC is a new management platform in Windows PowerShell that enables deploying and managing configuration data for software services and managing the environment in which these services run.
DSC provides a set of Windows PowerShell language extensions, new Windows PowerShell cmdlets, and resources that you can use to declaratively specify how you want your software environment to be configured. It also provides a means to maintain and manage existing configurations."

DSC Configurations

Windows PowerShell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Introducing PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) - Building Clouds Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
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Getting Started with PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) - Microsoft Virtual Academy

https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/bestprac/configuration-management-windows-powershell-desired-state-configuration-dsc-36167

Azure Automation DSC Overview | Microsoft Azure

"Azure Automation DSC builds on top of the fundamentals introduced in PowerShell DSC to provide an even easier configuration management experience. Azure Automation DSC brings the same management layer to PowerShell Desired State Configuration as Azure Automation offers for PowerShell scripting today.

Azure Automation DSC allows you to author and manage PowerShell Desired State Configurations, import DSC Resources, and generate DSC Node Configurations (MOF documents), all in the cloud. These DSC items will be placed on the Azure Automation DSC pull server so that target nodes (such as physical and virtual machines) in the cloud or on-premises can pick them up, automatically conform to the desired state they specify, and report back on their compliance with the desired state to Azure Automation."

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