February 2019
Beginner to intermediate
542 pages
10h 34m
English
The LCM is a key component of DSC. LCM is a Windows service that runs on each DSC target node, and is responsible for receiving configuration information and ensuring that the node is configured in the desired state (and remains that way).
DSC has two mechanisms for the desired state delivery: push and pull. The earlier recipes in this chapter demonstrated the push model: you create a configuration and its related MOF file on one node and push that configuration to another node. In the pull model, you configure the node with details of where and how to find a pull server. Once configured, a node can pull configurations from the configured pull server. In both cases, it is the LCM that performs the ...