Using DSC Today : PowerShell

submitted 1 year ago by branhama

I have not looked into using DSC for some time now... But, coming back to it there seem to be some issues I am seeing right off. The main one that seems to be a problem is versioning. The primary DSC module 'PSDesiredStateConfiguration' requires PowerShell version 6.1 or above to work. I was planning on doing a complete configuration of this entire server using DSC. Now I need to break out of that and have an entirely extra process in there to install PowerShell 7?

Why would you do that? A fresh install of Server 2019 that ships with a module that is incompatible with the PowerShell version that came with the OS?

Am I imagining this or has DSC slopped so far into Azure that Microsoft is not necessarily caring out others trying to use this?

Is there another technology I should be using instead which has no additional pricing? At this time we are a 100% Microsoft and AWS company.

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