Pro Powershell Desired State Configuration - 2nd Edition by Ravikanth Chaganti (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Full in-depth guide to this vital PowerShell feature in Windows and beyond
Written by a renowned PowerShell expert, multi-year MVP awardee, speaker, and contributor to the international PowerShell community
Helps readers take a modern and robust approach to configuring their infrastructure, whether on-premises or in the cloud and cross-platform

From the Back Cover

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

About the Author

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.