mikenizo808 / DSC_LABS

Build a lab to run Desired State Configuration (DSC)

README

Introducing DSC_LABS. This is a demo based run-through on deploying and managing Desired State Configuration (DSC).

Features

• Deploy a jump server for use with dsc.
• Deploy dc01, dc02, certificate server, and dsc pull server (IIS web server).
• Then, deploy and manage nodes with dsc.
• Full demos on how to use dsc to manage Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Ubuntu 20.04
• Learn to create self-signed certificates to manage freshly deployed guests from template
• Learn to create CA-signed certificates in lab.local (the domain you create)
• Learn to use the pull server to securely configure and manage all nodes.

Requirements

• Requires Microsoft ISE and/or VS Code
• Requires hardware to run one or more virtual machines

Virtualization Type

• kvm - For this fork we are using kvm which is available for free on ubuntu.
• VMware - For a fully automated deploy of dsc labs using VMware technologies, see the original repo at https://github.com/vmkdaily/DSC_LABS/tree/master/vmw.

Credits

DSC_LABS uses some helper functions and techniques from https://github.com/Duffney/#