Is DSC Dead? - Gael Colas and Michael Greene - PSCOFNEU 2020
Unless you are heavily involved with Desired State Configuration (DSC), and you've been paying attention to the DSC planning updates, the DSC Community Calls, you might have trouble seeing what's going on with DSC.
In this session, we'll try to briefly review the why and what of DSC, decrypt all the recent news and see how it looks today, and finally make some predictions on its evolution.
We'll review DSC's core principles and components, the differences between platform, solutions, resources and the community behind https://dsccommunity.org.
We will discuss how third parties, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, but also AWS, VMWare, Cisco are leveraging the technology.
Next, we'll see a demo the work done by the PowerShell team to make invoking DSC resources work from PowerShell 7 on any platform from the RFC I wrote. We will discuss scenarios, current limitations and some tricks and tips you may find useful.
Finally, we can't talk about the future of DSC without spending some time on Azure Policy Guest Configuration, which leverages the new codebase of a DSC agent (sometimes called DSCv2 or LCMv2). We'll look at how you can leverage DSC resources, enact changes, and how hybrid scenarios can be addressed with Azure ARC.
As I've been lucky to be contracted by the DSC team to work with them and the PowerShell team for several months, feel free to bring your questions and feedback as I'm happy to forward your feedback!
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