Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux

jones_supa writes: Microsoft is announcing that PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for Linux is available for download in form of RPM and DEB packages. DSC is a new management platform that provides a set of PowerShell extensions that you can use to declaratively specify how you want your software environment to be configured. You can now use the DSC platform to manage the configuration of both Windows and Linux workloads with the PowerShell interface. Microsoft says that bringing DSC to Linux is another step in the company's "broader commitment to common management of heterogeneous assets in your datacenter or the public cloud." Adds reader benjymouse: DSC is in the same space as Chef and Puppet (and others); but unlike those, Microsofts attempts to build a platform/infrastructure based on industry standards like OMI to allow DSC to configure and control both Windows, Linux and other OSes as well as network equipment like switches, etc.

Comments

So long bash and zsh!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's been nice knowing ya. Who am I kidding, no it hasn't. I am SO glad Microsoft is bringing professional-grade software to Linux. I've suffered too long with shit developed by high school students.

Re:Powershell is sweet as hell

[silas_moeckel]

Unfortunately the leap is backwards.

I don't think I've had to use cut sed awk or tr in more than a decade none of those are really for day to day sysadmin work. If I want well defined objects I use SNMP you know an extendable standard that has been around forever with a functional and extremely fine grained security model. Newer kit tends to some sort of rest API, XML is similar in structure to SNMP it's just it's overly verbose bastard child. Most of the stuff I used to use bits like awk for are log processing/report generation and thats pretty much all gone the way of logstash etc.

This is another round of the same thing WMI is, a bad replacement for a standard method.