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Understanding cross-platform DSC

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Understanding cross-platform DSC

- [Voiceover] One of the fantastic things about DSC is that it's not limited just to Windows servers. We actually have the ability inside of Desired State Configuration to do cross-platform configurations as well, especially to Linux based systems that we want to work with, so in this video we're just talk about some of the basic tenants and premise around working with DSC in a cross-platform environment. First off, the nice thing about this is that we've talked about DSC as just a platform, but it can also do Windows and Linux systems, and it can even go to clouds like Microsoft Azure where it can actually configure those systems as well, so this platform is pretty robust in what it can do. Now what we're gonna to see in this particular chapter, is we're gonna talk about Linux and what we can modify with Linux Powershell interface. So the nice thing about PowerShell is that we can actually work with the Linux interfaces and more importantly we can create the DSC syntax that are there…

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