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.