DSC vs. "The Others" - A Song of Configuration Management
summary
Compares DSC, Chef, and Puppet by showing concrete work not promises: creates a Chef cookbook, uploads cookbook and runs chef client via WinRM, and builds a Puppet module then bootstraps Puppet master in Azure and signs certs; installs IIS and verifies the site installed IIS and started WWW service; demonstrates using DSC resources inside both ecosystems and notes repositories sizes (Puppet Forge ~5000 modules, Chef Supermarket ~3000); demos mostly apply successfully with one Chef site mismatch.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:10Missy Januszko
- 3:55Resume building quandary
- 5:53Disclaimer
- 7:12DSC Review
- 9:46DSC Drawbacks
- 12:39Chef
- 13:56Chef Client
- 18:31Bootstrapping
- 19:39Demo
- 22:19Chef Server
- 23:39Chef DK
- 25:29Adding Public IP Addresses
- 28:09Using VS Code
- 36:39Using WinRM
- 42:31Puppet Terminology
- 45:52Bootstrapping the Puppet
- 49:35Puppet Demo
- 53:20Puppet Validate
- 55:25Puppet PowerShell
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