Getting started with Desired State Configuration
Duration: 2 days
Desired State Configuration (DSC) can significantly improve your IT operations by bringing consistency, automation, and reliability to your infrastructure management.
In this course you will learn the Infrastucture as Code (IaC) concepts and how DSC implements them. You will learn the evolution of DSC, pitfalls to avoid, and the current state of the art of configuration management from code.
You’re going to write and apply basic machine configuration, create a resource, and discover the challenges of an out-of-box experience.
You will then explore the existing solutions and methodologies to be successful with your DSC project.
We’ll discuss the new DSC version (v3, not yet fully released) and how the future might look.
Objectives
- Discover DSC and the configuration from code principles
- Create and apply basic configurations
- Discover the different versions and specificities of DSC
Hands-on
- Write & Apply a configuration
- Author a DSC resource
- Test the DSC v3 executable
Prerequisites
Training programme
Day 1
- Review DSC principles and concepts (resource, idempotence, module)
- Compose a Configuration and apply it to a node
- Author a simple DSC Resource
- Discover the DSC community modules
Day 2
- Authoring DSC Configuration Documents
- Understanding Configuration Data and Yaml configurations
- Setting up your first configuration Pipeline
- DSCv3 and future directions
Methods
- Content: Theoretical and practical courses, either face-to-face or in a distance learning classroom.
- Methodology: Active teaching based on presentation, examples, demonstrations, experience sharing and hands-on labs.
- Materials: Provided.
- Format: Face-to-face or distance learning in our virtual training facilities.
Pricing
> Private training <
£4,000 / up to 10 pax / 2 days
Online delivery on our interactive platform
or on site upon request
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