Pro Powershell Desired State Configuration: An In-Depth Guide to Windows Powershell Dsc

ISBN-13: 9781484234822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 577 str.

Ravikanth Chaganti

Spis treści

Part 1: Getting Started with Desired State Configuration

Chapter 1: Introduction to Infrastructure as Code and PowerShell DSC

Chapter 2: Windows PowerShell DSC Architecture and Feature Overview

Chapter 3: Windows PowerShell DSC Local Configuration Manager

Chapter 4: Writing DSC Configurations

Chapter 5: Building Advanced DSC Configurations

Chapter 6: Writing DSC Resources

Chapter 7: Validating DSC Resources

Part 2: Advanced DSC Concepts

Chapter 8: DSC Configuration Delivery Modes

Chapter 9: Reporting DSC Configuration

Chapter 10: Partial Configurations

Chapter 11: Cross-machine Synchronization in DSC

Chapter 12: Debugging DSC Resources

Chapter 13: Security in DSC

Part 3: DSC and the Release Pipeline

Chapter 14: DSC and the Release Pipeline

Chapter 15: DSC with AppVeyor CI

Part 4: DSC Platform, Cloud, and Containers

Chapter 16: DSC as a platform

Chapter 17: DSC and Azure

Chapter 18: DSC and Google Cloud Platform

Chapter 19: DSC and Amazon Web Services

Chapter 20: DSC with Containers

O autorze

Ravikanth Chaganti is a well-known blogger and a member of the PowerShell community. He has been a Microsoft MVP in Cloud and Data Center Management since 2010 and works at Dell EMC as lead engineer in the Converged Platform and Solutions Division. He is passionate about automation and works in his free time writing scripts and tools to help automate management tasks for Windows OS and applications on Windows OS. Ravikanth has more than 15 years of industry experience and a broad set of skills in the IT infrastructure domain ranging from servers to storage to networking. He started scripting in early 2000 and continued to hone in his skills from that point on. In 2006, he fell in love with an early release of Windows PowerShell and has been evangelizing PowerShell ever since.

Blurb

Use Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) and DSC Core 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