Gael Colas is an independent consultant and vital member of the DSC Community (https://dsccommunity.org), an association who actively contributes to the development of the name-giving Configuration Management framework.
Desired State Configuration (DSC) was introduced with PowerShell 4 as an addition to the Windows PowerShell and has undergone some significant changes ever since. I invited Gael to chat about the roots, the principles and the future of DSC – not only for the Windows platform.
The interview was recorded on July 15, 2020 in Kuala Lumpur and Duisburg.
Show notes
- Gael Colas
- Apple 2 E (Wikipedia)
- OMI (Wikipedia)
- SSH (Wikipedia)
- Idempotency (Wikipedia)
- Configuration management (Wikipedia)
- Steven Murawski: DSC… WHAT IS IT FOR, REALLY?
- The DSC Community
- DSC ressources for NTFS security on Github
- PSConf Asia 2019: DSC Workshop by Raimund Andree and Jan-Hendrik Peters
- NTFSSecurity by by Raimund Andree on the PowerShell Gallery
- Puppet
- Ansible
- Classes in DSC
- Gael Colas: Class Based DSC Resource only proposal
- https://dsccommunity.org/blog/class-based-dsc-resources/
- Katie Kragenbrink on Twitter
- Is DSC Dead? – Gael Colas and Michael Greene (PSConfEU 2020) on YouTube
- Michael Greene, Steven Murawski: The Release Pipeline Model (Whitepaper)
Chapters
- 00:00:00.000 Intro (Admiral Bob: Wanderer, Take 2)
- 00:02:31.396 about_Gael
- 00:07:31.506 DSC early days
- 00:10:02.050 Configuration management
- 00:12:35.465 Idempotency et al
- 00:18:59.571 DSL
- 00:22:39.457 DSC ressources
- 00:26:09.837 LCM
- 00:28:03.786 Pull server
- 00:36:01.196 Toolmakers
- 00:46:54.780 DSC in mixed environments
- 00:54:40.467 Classes in DSC
- 00:58:26.173 DSC and PS7
- 01:04:59.300 Forecast
- 01:19:04.528 Wrap-up
- 01:33:09.517 Outtro
Music