Database engineer with a passion for automation
When you enact a configuration against a target node by default the process runs as the local system account. For most of your DSC resources this is fine. However, if you need to access something like a file share, active directory or user registry settings, you might start to run into permission issues. DSC Resources…
One of the biggest obstacles people face when using DSC is the troubleshooting and reporting pieces. There are options here to integrate with third party tools to create a more polished enterprise solution, but if you’re going with just straight DSC you might feel it is lacking some in this area. We do however have…
Learn more about the building blocks for our #Powershell #DSC configurations.
Once we have crafted the perfect configuration and shipped it out to our target nodes, it’s time for the magic to happen. The MOF file that we created by executing our configuration is translated and enacted by the Local Configuration Manager (LCM) on each target node. The LCM is the engine of DSC and plays…
In my last Desired State Configuration (DSC) post a couple of weeks ago I covered some of the concepts involved with DSC, and I also have a T-SQL Tuesday post to get you started writing your first configuration. So today we are going to look at the next step in the process: what happens after…
I’m currently working on a pretty interesting project to explore using PowerShell’s Desired State Configuration (DSC) to manage SQL Servers. DSC uses declarative language to define the desired state of your infrastructure. Ensuring that the directory C:\Test exists is a simple example. A more complicated example would be the complete configuration of a SQL Server.…
Automation is something that interests me greatly, and I think if you have read even one of my previous posts you’ll know that my favorite tool for this kind of work is PowerShell. This is the perfect topic to kick off T-SQL Tuesday for 2019 so thanks goes to Garry Bargsley for hosting this month.…
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again, I have struggled in the last month or two to get anything up on my blog. Turns out weddings are pretty time consuming ?! Now that I’m happily married and home from an amazing honeymoon in Hawaii it’s back to work on my blog and professional development. Which makes this…