DSC and the Release Pipeline

Abstract

You started your learning in Chapter 1 by looking at Infrastructure as Code and how it enables continuous integration and delivery for any DSC resource modules you author and the node configurations you prepare for compiling and enacting. However, you have not seen a practical implementation of this yet. In Chapter 6, you learned how to author your own DSC resource modules and looked at validating these resource scripts in Chapter 7. You learned how to publish the module to a private PowerShell repository hosted on an SMB share as well. It was all manual. But, with the help of a release pipeline implementation, this entire process can be automated from source control to a private repository. In this chapter, you will explore one such implementation using a few community PowerShell modules that enable a build-to-release pipeline implementation. Let’s get started.