Learning Path: PowerShell: The Road to PowerShell DSC

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.