Hello! PowerShell DSC can install EXEs with its Package resource: Path is easy, it's just the path to the installer. But what goes in Name or ProductID? Let's use WinRAR as an example. You shouldn't actually install this with DSC, you should use Chocolatey, but I needed something to demo. There are lots of instructions … Continue reading PowerShell DSC EXE ProductID And Name
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PowerShell DSC In Vagrant
I work mostly on Apple Mac OS X. I've also been writing a lot of Windows automation, and that means PowerShell DSC. PSDSC doesn't work on OS X yet, and even once it does I won't be able to test Windows-only resources. To test my configurations, I use Vagrant boxes. It took a little fiddling … Continue reading PowerShell DSC In Vagrant
Which PowerShell DSC Resources Module To Import
Hello! These three modules all implement various PowerShell DSC resources: PSDesiredStateConfiguration xPSDesiredStateConfiguration PSDscResources That gives us three top-level Import-DSCResource lines we could use in configurations (check out this article for an in-context example): Here are the differences: PSDesiredStateConfiguration is the built-in module that ships in Windows as part of PowerShell 4.0. xPSDesiredStateConfiguration is an experimental version of … Continue reading Which PowerShell DSC Resources Module To Import
Simple Headless PowerShell DSC Script
Hello! In clouds, "headless" deployment means instances provision themselves when they start. There's no external server infrastructure orchestrating their config, everything they need to do they do on their own. This is the most common deployment pattern I've seen in DevOps. It took me some fiddling to get this pattern set up in PowerShell DSC … Continue reading Simple Headless PowerShell DSC Script