Learning PowerShell DSC - Second Edition

The how

The DSC language extensions, cmdlets, and resources provide a standardized way of testing whether the expected state is present on a target system.

This allows the different aspects of the actual execution of configuring a system to be codified away from the information, deciding what settings to change or software to install. While the what dealt with writing down the expected state, the how is concerned with how to make it happen that way. Or, as Captain Picard would say, how to make it so.

This separation is important because it is expected that the list of things to do on a target computer will change, but it is not expected that how to execute that setting will change frequently. For example, there will be many types of files ...