If you are interested in managing an infrastructure with DSC at scale, visit the talk “The DSC project blueprint or how to start a DSC project the right way”. In “DSC: Reviewing the basics” we are reviewing the concepts of DSC and getting you prepared for a CI/CD pipeline for your infrastructure.

DSC was introduced with PowerShell 4, but still only a few organizations are using it to manage a large infrastructure. One reason is the lack of best practices and templates. The talk “The DSC project blueprint or how to start a DSC project the right way” based on the DscWorkshop Project and the Microsoft whitepaper The release Pipeline Model is filling this gap and shows how a release pipeline for infrastructure as code can look like. If you haven’t used DSC for a while and want to review some of the terminology, principles and coding elements of DSC, this session get’s you back on track and prepares you to make the most of what is discussion in “The DSC project blueprint or how to start a DSC project the right way”. After the session you will be able to explain how the following things work: DSC configurations, configuration data, MOF and Meta.MOF files, what Windows does with MOF files, the DSC Pull Server on-prem and on Azure, DSC resources, composite resources.