Bartek BielawskiManaging Linux can become a challenge if you don’t have some way of distributing credentials. There are several options: joining Active Directory domain and using shared credentials for both Linux and Windows, using other LDAP implementation to …
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Bartek BielawskiCTP of Linux DSC that was released last year has only five resources: nxService, nxFile, nxUser, nxGroup, and nxScript. Things like package management, network configuration, firewall settings, jobs scheduled in crontab don’t have coverage in …
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Bartek BielawskiLinux is a system that stores configuration in text files. As a result, nxFile should be considered one of two most powerful resources offered in the CTP release.
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Bartek BielawskiPowerShell DSC for Linux caught my attention immediately after it was announced. Being able to control configuration of Linux box with pure PowerShell code is huge for anybody who is interested in cross-platform solutions build in PowerShell.
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Bartek BielawskiIn the first part of this series, we covered the basis–how to get Desired State Configuration to do what the name promises: keep desired state consistent.
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Ravikanth CPartial configurations in DSC allow department-level delegation of target system configuration. This is an important step in enabling collaboration in the enterprise configuration management context.
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