28 Days of DSC: Day 28 The Finale
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Ryan Bartram (37 Posts)
Automation Engineer
Ryan Bartram Automation Engineer for over 5 years, currently at itnetX specializing in Modern Cloud on Azure.28 Days of DSC: Day 27 Classes Again?! 😣
How can I support multiple DSC Class based resources, without having to save them all within the root module?.28 Days of DSC: Day 26 Reverse DSC - Writing Our Own Reverse Script 👨💻
hopefully prompt all of you guys to help institute the change and really get Reverse DSC up and rolling as a mainstream tool for DSC28 Days of DSC: Day 25 Reverse DSC - How Does It Work 🧐
I'm going to keep this one relatively short and explain how ReverseDSC was designed to work and how it can be improved. All the while laying the ground work for creating our own ReverseDSC Scripts.28 Days of DSC: Day 24 Reverse DSC - Automate DSC Configuration 🤯
The idea is that you can have a script go and read your environment, and based on that input, generate a DSC configuration28 Days of DSC: Day 23 Contributing To The Community - A Git Crash Course
I just want to go through a start to finish example of how you can take an existing project and extend its functionality. Forking, committing, merging and pull requests28 Days of DSC: Day 22 Visualising DSC – What A Pretty Picture
I was looking for a way to visualise DSC for a while and then I came across a project by Kevin Marquette28 Days of DSC: Day 21 Unit Testing - Follow The Red Brick Road
Since they are a mixed between business logic and external function calls, we call these grey box tests, but since that would of made for a boring picture, I coloured them red 😃🎨28 Days of DSC: Day 20 Unit Testing - Follow The Yellow Brick Road
For help debugging an troubleshooting DSC configurations and resources.28 Days of DSC: Day 19 Unit Testing - The Begins of Pester
For help debugging an troubleshooting DSC configurations and resources.28 Days of DSC: Day 18 Sandboxing
The first step to testing is being able to sandbox your development environment away from the rest of your machine28 Days of DSC: Day 17 Class Based Resource Part 3 - The Final
The goal is to demonstrate some more complex, real life uses for classes. Not complex for the sake of being complex, rather beneficial and practical to the implementation of DSC and perhaps other Automation projects.28 Days of DSC: Day 16 Class Based Resource Part 2 - Classes Continued
For those of you new to "real" development, this is going to be a steep learning curve28 Days of DSC: Day 15 Class Based Resource Part 1 - Classes
PowerShell Classes are a new feature that we were gifted back when PowerShell 5 was new and shiny28 Days of DSC: Day 14 Partial Configurations
The idea behind Partial Configurations is that you can separate the responsibility of each part of you configuration into entirely separate MOFS (Configurations)28 Days of DSC: Day 13 DSC Pull Server - Why DSC Manager?
The LCM (Local Configuration Manager) can not pull its config from a Pull Server like it can a normal configuration; rather it has to be pushed28 Days of DSC: Day 12 DSC Pull Server - DSC Manager
What I want to do today is show you how you can get a pullserver up and running in a matter of minutes using DSC.28 Days of DSC: Day 11 Delegating DSC Access - JEA
JEA defines that we create a specialized PowerShell session that has restricted access to PowerShell28 Days of DSC: Day 10 Delegating DSC Access - WMI
In it's default state, DSC can only be administered by the local admins of the windows machine. This can be problematic if you want to assign lower privileged users.28 Days of DSC: Day 9 Script Based Resource Part 2
The script resource, its a nasty thing. But you need to know what it is and how it works.28 Days of DSC: Day 8 Script Based Resource Part 1
Today is simply discussing the structure of a DSC Resource. How it works, setting it up, and some things to start thinking about before we start coding.28 Days of DSC: Day 7 Composite Resources
Just like nested configurations, only versionable and packaged in a module28 Days of DSC: Day 6 Nested Configurations
Nested Configurations are to DSC what functions are to PowerShell. You can reuse them in your configuration script to save you typing the same thing over and over.28 Days of DSC: Day 5 Securing Your Configurations & Modules
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but if you try to pass credentials to a configuration, DSC will complain during compilation.28 Days of DSC: Day 4 Controlling Restarts
Why am I banging on about the LCM and editing it in DSC you might ask...well28 Days of DSC: Day 3 Basic Troubleshooting - Job Logs
For help debugging an troubleshooting DSC configurations and resources.28 Days of DSC: Day 2 Using Configuration Data
ConfigurationData is the way in which we pass variables into our DSC Configuration scripts. This post aims to provide a couple of tips on how to make using configdata a little easier.28 Days of DSC: The Basics
A DSC post for every day in February. Clear, concise, specific DSC posts which will hopefully improve your DSC configurations, resources and troubleshooting no end.