Pro PowerShell Desired State Configuration: An In-Depth Guide to Windows PowerShell DSC, 2nd Edition

Use Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) to configure your infrastructure on-premises and in the cloud. In an environment where changes and deployments are happening all the time, DSC makes the necessary adjustments to the system so you don’t have to. Pro Desired State Configuration shows you how.

PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) is a powerful configuration management platform that makes it easier than ever to perform configuration management of your infrastructure, whether on-premises or in the cloud. With Pro PowerShell Desired State Configuration, Ravikanth Chaganti revises and significantly expands his previous edition, bringing you a complete in-depth reference for applying this evolving technology in your day-to-day work.

What’s new in this edition?

• Get up-to-date, in-depth guidance on DSC in the data center
• Understand the central role that DSC plays in DevOps today
• Understand how DSC can be integrated into build and release management tools
• Learn to think and act like a developer when automating your configuration management, creating a testable, robust process that you can use again and again
• Find out why and how DSC has an important role to play in public and private cloud deployments
• Apply DSC in the cloud with Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform

Who This Book Is For

IT administrators, developers and DevOps engineers working in Windows-based data center environments. With a little prior PowerShell scripting experience, this book can be used as an in-depth reference to creating, customizing, and extending DSC in Windows. IT administrators with limited scripting experience will also find this book a useful overview of what DSC offers and how to use DSC resources to automate configuration management and deployment.

Table of Contents

Part I: Getting Started with Windows PowerShell DSC
Chapter 1: Introduction to Infrastructure as Code and PowerShell DSC
Chapter 2: Getting Started with DSC
Chapter 3: The Local Configuration Manager
Chapter 4: Writing Configurations
Chapter 5: Writing Advanced DSC Configurations
Chapter 6: Writing Composite and Custom DSC Resource Modules
Chapter 7: Validating DSC Resources

Part II: Advanced DSC Concepts
Chapter 8: Configuration Delivery Methods
Chapter 9: Reporting, Monitoring, and Correcting a Configuration
Chapter 10: Partial Configurations
Chapter 11: Cross-Node Synchronization
Chapter 12: Debugging DSC Resources
Chapter 13: Security in DSC

Part III: DSC and the Release Pipeline
Chapter 14: DSC and the Release Pipeline
Chapter 15: DSC with AppVeyor CI

Part IV: DSC Platform, Cloud, and Containers
Chapter 16: DSC as a Platform
Chapter 17: Microsoft Azure and DSC
Chapter 18: DSC and Google Cloud Platform
Chapter 19: Amazon Web Services and DSC
Chapter 20: DSC with Containers