Learning Path: Powershell: The Road To Powershell Dsc

Master DevOps with PowerShell DSC using real-world examples.

What you'll learn

Implement, customize, and troubleshoot the PowerShell DSC solution in production infrastructures.

Author new DSC resources and extend PowerShell DSC Solution

Work with declarative management of Windows and Linux virtual machines

Learn to author production deployments with nested configurations

Master Docker management with PowerShell DSC

Implement DevOps by integrating Chef and PowerShell DSC

Implement Infrastructure as a Code on Microsoft Azure

Master enterprise IT management processes and tools

Requirements

Prior knowledge of system administration and basic knowledge of PowerShell is a must.

Description

PowerShell is a popular scripting language especially designed for system administration and. PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) allows you to deploy and manage configuration data for software services and it also manages the environment in which all your services run. If you are an IT professional with basic knowledge of PowerShell and want the benefits of PowerShell DSC, this Learning Path is for you.

Packt’s Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.


 The highlights of this Learning Path are:


Learn to automate the management of containers and Docker
Tackle PowerShell DSC enterprise integration patterns

To start with, you will learn the basic fundamentals of PowerShell DSC, covering the architecture and components of the desired state configuration. You will create DSC configurations with the help of practical examples, and DSC custom resources for your custom applications. You will then deploy a real-world application using PowerShell DSC. Moving forward, you will become familiar with the powerful desired state configuration platform, which helps you achieve continuous delivery and efficient management and easy deployment of data for systems. Next, you will move on to integrating with the modern DevOps tools. Finally you will implement infrastructure as code, continuous delivery, and DevOps on Microsoft hybrid cloud platforms: Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Azure Stack.


On the completion of this Learning Path, you will have a hand-on experience working with PowerShell DSC.

Meet Your Expert:

We have the best works of the following esteemed author to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:Prajeesh Prathap is a delivery engineer and an expert for DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and ALM. He has over 10 year’s software development experience as a developer, architect, and consultant. Over these years he has used his technical expertise and agile practices to help teams become hyper-productive. In conjunction with establishing successful Agile processes, his focus is on helping teams develop strong Agile engineering practices and disciplines such as Test-driven development, refactoring, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery.

Overview

Section 1: Getting Started with PowerShell DSC

Lecture 1 The Course Overview

Lecture 2 Setting Up the Development Environment

Lecture 3 PowerShell DSC - Key Concepts

Lecture 4 PowerShell DSC Delivery Modes

Lecture 5 DSC Partial Configurations and Best Practices

Lecture 6 Securing Credentials in MOF Files

Lecture 7 Built-in DSC Resources

Lecture 8 Custom DSC Resources

Lecture 9 Configuration Data

Lecture 10 DSC Report Server

Lecture 11 DSCResourceKit

Lecture 12 Deploying Active Directory on a Virtual Machine

Lecture 13 Installing SQLServer on a Virtual Machine

Lecture 14 Introduction to Chocolatey

Lecture 15 Chocolatey and DSC

Lecture 16 Introduction to Windows Containers and Docker

Lecture 17 Install and Configure Docker Using DSC

Lecture 18 Manage Nano Server Using DSC

Lecture 19 DSC Event Logging

Lecture 20 Troubleshooting DSC Environment

Section 2: Implementing and Integrating PowerShell DSC

Lecture 21 The Course Overview

Lecture 22 Enterprise Implementation Concepts

Lecture 23 Version Control Concepts

Lecture 24 PowerShell DSC Git Implementation

Lecture 25 PowerShell DSC TFVC Implementation

Lecture 26 Release Management in VSTS and TFS

Lecture 27 Release a Sample .Net Application

Lecture 28 Introduction to Chef

Lecture 29 Chef Cookbooks

Lecture 30 PowerShell DSC and Chef

Lecture 31 Introduction to Azure Resource Manager

Lecture 32 ARM Templates in Visual Studio

Lecture 33 Deploy Azure Resource Group from Release Management

This Learning Path is aimed at IT professionals with basic PowerShell and IT management backgrounds and help them understand the shift to DevOps, the benefits of PowerShell DSC, and the DevOps enterprise adoption patterns with PowerShell DSC.