Blog
Welcome to the blog section! Here you’ll find posts from various sources, covering topics around DSC. Feel free to explore or contribute your own posts directly to the posts folder.
Optimizing Your DSC V3 Authoring Experience in VSCode
The world around DSC has changed significantly; only some of the components to talk to the DSC engine are written in PowerShell. Instead, the authoring of configurations is written in YAML or JSON. Previous versions of DSC were closed and you couldn’t have a look under the hood of the engine. Now, DSC V3 is totally rewritten and open-sourced on GitHub. The engine itself doesn’t require a Local Configuration Manager (LCM) anymore.
June 1, 2024
A first look at Desired State Configuration v3
On many popular forums, the question arose “is Desired State Configuration still alive”? If you look at the statistics on the PowerShell Gallery, many popular DSC Resources are still being updated frequently. You might also not be aware that the PowerShell team has released the alpha version of DSCv3, which is publicly available. This blog post was posted on Medium.
October 7, 2023