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MS Releases Powershell SDC - to Manage Config for.... Linux

posted by CoolHand on Monday May 11 2015, @08:37PM   Printer-friendly

CoolHand writes:

The Register reports that Microsoft has released a new Powershell DSC tool to manage configuration of Linux boxes from the powershell interface. This would be similar to Puppet and friends that are used for this task today.

In yet another sign that Microsoft is a very different animal these days, the company has released PowerShell DSC (desired state configuration) for Linux.

PowerShell DSC is a server configuration tool that has hitherto driven Windows Server boxen. But Microsoft's now decided it has a “commitment to common management of heterogeneous assets in your datacenter or the public cloud”, so has added Linux-wrangling features to the tool.

The new code can cope with CentOS, Debian GNU/Linux, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and Ubuntu Server.

The github site for the project says:

Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) provides a configuration platform built into Windows that is based on open standards. DSC is flexible enough to function reliably and consistently in each stage of the deployment lifecycle (development, test, pre-production, production), as well as during scale-out, which is required in the cloud world.

It looks like this Powershell DSC is actually built with Python and will run on Linux, not just Windows systems with Powershell.

There have been a few signs recently that Microsoft may be becoming a bit more open and less of the MS we knew in the Gates/Ballmer eras. Is this another sign that MS is actually pursuing that trend? Or is it a bid to gain more control over the Linux-sphere? Would any Soylentils think about using this for configuration management over Puppet, Chef, cfengine, or Ansible?

 
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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @11:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @11:34PM (#181703)

    Batch files
    VBScript
    Windows Scripting Language
    PowerShell

    How long till PowerShell is deprecated?

    .
    Contrast that with bash:
    backward-compatible and forward-compatible since 1978.

    -- gewg_

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @12:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @12:16AM (#181714)

    Uhh, you can still use all of those.

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday May 12 2015, @12:34AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday May 12 2015, @12:34AM (#181724) Journal

    Bourne shell (sh) standardized since 1977 without the confusions of Linux.

  • (Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Tuesday May 12 2015, @02:37AM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Tuesday May 12 2015, @02:37AM (#181762) Journal

    Batch files still work, and if you were the real gewg_ you'd know that.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @06:03AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @06:03AM (#181810)

      Did that ever get the && operator?
      ...or is it still stuck in the dark ages--not even able to do what you could do with any *n?x shell decades ago?

      -- gewg_

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @03:30PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @03:30PM (#181964)

        Did that ever get the && operator?

        yes, yes it did