Pro PowerShell Desired State Configuration - Ravikanth Chaganti

Pro PowerShell Desired State Configuration

An In-Depth Guide to Windows PowerShell DSC
Buch | Softcover
577 Seiten
2018 | 2nd ed.
Apress (Verlag)
978-1-4842-3482-2 (ISBN)
106,99 inkl. MwSt
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.

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.

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 AmazonWeb Services.- Chapter 20: DSC with Containers.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 260 Illustrations, black and white; XXVIII, 577 p. 260 illus.
Verlagsort Berkley
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Betriebssysteme / Server
Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Software Entwicklung
Schlagworte Administration • DevOps • Infrastructure • Microsoft • Windows PowerShell
ISBN-10 1-4842-3482-0 / 1484234820
ISBN-13 978-1-4842-3482-2 / 9781484234822
Zustand Neuware
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