Pro PowerShell Desired State Configuration: An In-Depth Guide to Windows PowerShell DSC

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Ravikanth Chaganti

Pro PowerShell Desired State Configuration

An In-Depth Guide to Windows PowerShell DSC

Ravikanth Chaganti

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APress
26 April 2018

Microsoft programming; Software Engineering

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 PowerShell 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

Integrate DSC 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.

By: Ravikanth Chaganti
Imprint: APress
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd ed.
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 1.141kg
ISBN: 9781484234822
ISBN 10: 1484234820
Pages: 577
Publication Date: 26 April 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.