Learning PowerShell DSC

A high level overview of DSC

We will go into DSC architecture in much greater detail in the next chapter, but it is useful to show a quick overview of how all the concepts we just covered fit together. DSC has several steps that can be bucketed together into three large phases.

As we mentioned earlier, DSC can manage more platforms than just Windows, but for the purposes of this book, we will stick to Windows configurations. The DSC Resources for Linux and other platforms are in the early stages, so there will be significant changes as these implementations mature; it would be too hard to account for these changes in the space we have in this book.

The authoring phase

You begin with DSC by writing a configuration script in PowerShell. The script ...