DevOps Kit for Dsc

This DevOps Kit for Desired State Configuration (DOKD) aims to provide IT Pros with tools and documentation to easily adopt a DevOps model for deploying and managing Desired State Configuration (DSC).

DSC already provides the tools for IT Pros to automate the configuration of Windows or Linux to stand-up a fully running workload. Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools such as Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) also provide features such as requirements tracking, version control and release management.

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Disclaimer

This project is to be considered a proof-of-concept and not a supported Microsoft product.

Modules

The following modules are included in this repository.

Module	Description	Latest version
DevOpsKitDsc	Automate releases of Desired State Configuration configurations

Features

• DevOps
• Collections
  • Group configuration and nodes into collections that can be built together.
• Build
  • Restore module dependencies.
  • Build only changed nodes with incremental build.
  • Build documentation together with DSC configurations.
• Node configuration data
  • Use flat configuration data structure for a single node.
  • Use your choice of PSD1 or JSON files for storing node data.
• Release
  • Package configurations and resource modules ready for a local pull server or Azure Automation Service.

Getting started

Getting the module

• Install from PowerShell Gallery

# Install the module
Install-Module -Name 'DevOpsKitDsc';

• Save for offline use from PowerShell Gallery

# Save the DevOpsKitDsc module, in the .\modules directory
Save-Module -Name 'DevOpsKitDsc' -Path '.\modules';

Getting Visual Studio Code integration

• Install extension (preview) from Visual Studio Marketplace

# Install the extension
code --install-extension bewhite.dokd-vscode-preview

Building a cloned git repository

Get a sample configuration repository and build the configurations.

# Use git to clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/BernieWhite/DevOpsKitDsc-samples.git;

cd .\DevOpsKitDsc-samples

# Restore dependency modules to the workspace
Restore-DOKDscModule;

# Build all collections
Invoke-DOKDscBuild;

Detailed instructions

For detailed instructions please see getting started documentation here.

Commands

• Initialize-DOKDsc
• Register-DOKDscNode
• Import-DOKDscNodeConfiguration
• Invoke-DOKDscBuild
• New-DOKDscCollection
• Publish-DOKDscCollection
• Get-DOKDscCollection
• Set-DOKDscCollectionOption
• Import-DOKDscWorkspaceSetting
• Set-DOKDscWorkspaceOption
• Get-DOKDscWorkspaceOption
• Add-DOKDscModule
• Get-DOKDscModule
• Publish-DOKDscModule
• Restore-DOKDscModule

Related projects

Project name	Description
DevOpsKitDsc-vscode	A Visual Studio Code extension for DOKD
DevOpsKitDsc-samples	A sample DOKD repository
PSDocs	A PowerShell module to generate markdown from pipeline objects

Maintainers

• Bernie White

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.