Reliability
Your build process does not only need to be traceable but also very reliable. By using proper error handling in PowerShell, Desired State Configuration, and Just Enough Administration, you can also improve the reliability of your process.
Usually during a build, virtual machines in a service are created and software is deployed to them. With DSC, this gets very easy. By using the same configuration with different configuration data depending on the environment (Dev, QA, Prod) or on the service that is deployed, you only have a very minimal amount of work to prepare the necessary infrastructure for release.
Just Enough Administration can help improve reliability and trust in the pipeline as well, by deploying restricted endpoints ...
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