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PowerShelllet's talk about automation

Automation

Orchestration

Installation

Automation

Servers, Servers,

Servers

Resilient

Automation?

Agenda

PowerShell

Deployment

Toolkit (PDT)

PowerShell:

Desired State

Configuration

PowerShell:

Workflows

Service

Management

Automation

Automation

Orchestration

Servers, Servers,

Servers

Resilient

Automation?

PowerShell:

Desired State

Configuration

PowerShell:

Workflows

Service

Management

Automation

Installation

Automation

Agenda

PowerShell

Deployment

Toolkit (PDT)

PDT 2.6…..zipSearch-String: „powershell

deployment toolkit 2.6“

Private Cloud installationInstaller.ps1

PDT - WalkthroughPreparation

Private Cloud Design Variable.xml

Software DownloadDownloader.ps1 + User

VMs (+ DC) creationVMcreator.ps1

Automation

Orchestration

Resilient

Automation?

PowerShell:

Desired State

Configuration

PowerShell:

Workflows

Service

Management

Automation

Agenda

PowerShell

Deployment

Toolkit (PDT)

Servers, Servers,

Servers

Installation

Automation

Automation!

Scripts

Lots of scripts

Error handling? lots of work / not implemented ;-)

„Scripting Anarchy“

<Demo>

|

Configuration and Continuous Deployment

Intent Environment

Configuration(Dev -> Test -> Production)

$SystemDrive = "C:"

$DemoFolder = "$SystemDrive\Demo"

$global:WebServerCount = 3

…

Structural

Configuration

WindowsFeature IIS {

Name = "Web-Server"

Ensure = "Present"

}

…

Make It So Idempotent

Automation

foreach -parallel ($featureName in $Name)

{

$feature = Get-WindowsFeature -Name $featureName

if(($Ensure -eq "Present") -and (!$feature.Installed))

{

Install-WindowsFeature -Name $featureName

}

….

}

…

Push Model

Configuration

Staging Area(Contains DSC data)3rd party

languages and

tools

Authoring Phase Staging Phase

PowerShell

“Make it So” Phase

Parser and

Dispatcher

Imperative

Providers

Local

Configuration

Store

Pull Model

Pull Server(Contains DSC data

and Modules)3rd party

languages and

tools

Authoring Phase Staging Phase

PowerShell

“Make it So” Phase

Parser and

Dispatcher

Imperative

Providers

Local

Configuration

Store

• PowerShell V4

Where is DSC available?

Windows Server 2012 R2

IncludedWindows 8.1

Windows Server 2012

Install with

Windows Management Framework 4.0Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows 7

ensure

correct configuration

Allows “continuous deployment” and prevents “configuration drift”

standards-based managed

elements

Automation

Orchestration

PowerShell:

Desired State

Configuration

PowerShell:

Workflows

Service

Management

Automation

Agenda

PowerShell

Deployment

Toolkit (PDT)

Servers, Servers,

Servers

Installation

Automation

Resilient

Automation?

Workflow Foundation (WWF) + PowerShell

Consists activities

allows nesting

Written in PowerShell language

Compiled to .net

Can set checkpoints

Automation

Orchestration

PowerShell:

Desired State

Configuration

PowerShell:

Workflows

Service

Management

Automation

Agenda

PowerShell

Deployment

Toolkit (PDT)

Servers, Servers,

Servers

Installation

Automation

Resilient

Automation?

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