Windows PowerShell DSC is a platform rather than just a set of tools to perform configuration management. In Chapter 3, you saw how DSC is implemented as a set of WMI providers. You know that DSC uses the CIM standard data representation for node configurations and uses WS-MAN as a standard transport for sending the configurations to the target nodes. This architecture is what makes DSC a platform. The cmdlets in the PSDesiredStateConfiguration module are a way to use the interfaces provided in the DSC platform. The declarative syntax that ...
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Ravikanth ChagantiPro PowerShell Desired State Configurationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3483-9_1616. DSC as a Platform
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