This document discusses Desired State Configuration (DSC) and provides an overview of key concepts:
- The Local Configuration Manager (LCM) is the DSC agent that enacts configurations on a system using PowerShell and APIs.
- Configurations are described in MOF documents using industry standard syntax. Resources are used by the LCM to understand how to configure, test, and report on system settings.
- DSC allows for full server automation and idempotent configurations that can sequence settings and report on compliance in a more flexible way than Group Policy or SCCM. However, DSC has more limited reporting capabilities than SCCM.
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4. Windows Operating System
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Windows Management Framework
WinRMWMI PowerShellBITS LCM
PowerShell
Web Access
Agent
• Local Configuration
Manager (LCM) Delivers
DSC
• Supports Industry Standard
MOF Documents from
DMTF
• Uses PowerShell and API’s
to Deliver Configuration
• Understands how to
configure settings using
Resources
• Other Vendors are plugging
into the LCM now and
building resources
5.
6. Term Explanation
Local Configuration Manager (LCM) The agent within the Windows Management
Framework that can enact Configurations on a
system
Configuration / Document / Configuration
Document
A file formatted in Industry Standard syntax (MOF)
that describes the configuration of the system
Resource Used by the Local Configuration Manager to:
• Understand the components in the Configuration
• Understand how to Test if they are compliant
• Understand how to Set them to a compliant State
• Understand how to Get Compliance Status
information
12. Technology Benefit Limitaton
Group Policy • Controlled and Delivered from Active Directory
• Locks settings from change
• Keeps everything defined in the Policy set
• Prevents changes being made in a valid Troubleshooting scenario
• High overhead in most organisations and slows server change tasks
• Cannot Sequence the settings
• Hard to report on a large number of servers, servers treated
individually
Desired State
Configuration
• Uses Industry Standard Document Standards )MOF from DMTF)
• Extensible for in-house applications
• Produces Configuration Files compatible with Linux OMI
• Leveraged by Industry Leading configuration management tools
(Chef/Puppet)
• Allows full server configuration through automation (if
modules/resources are present)
• Configuration is pulled from SMB or HTTP/HTTPS
• Server can Autocorrect or just log Configuration drift
• Configurations can be sequenced
• Change process becomes comparing MOF Files
• Server configuration happens without an extra agent and without
someone requiring Administrator rights
• Easy to query compliance state
• Spin up test labs that look like Production without the overhead of
SCCM or AD Configuration - build out AD before GPO can even be
used!
• Bare-OS Provisioning
• Servers treated like Cattle - Service oriented
• No GUI Configuration Tools
• Leaves settings in place when no longer in Configuration
• Limited Reporting features
SCCM DCM • Supports multiple Scripting Languages
• Configurable with a GUI
• Rich reporting features
• Supports Mac OS X & Mobile Devices
• Requires SCCM
• Difficult to move to another technology
• Persons managing configuration need SCCM Permissions to do so -
moving the bottleneck/process from GPO to SCCM
• Machine oriented
14. 1. Group Policy applies the Security and
Audit settings
2. Once built, the Server has the
ConfigMgr agent installed and lands
in a collection
3. Based on the Collection, a Pull Server
Certificate is installed and a DCM
Baseline is applied
4. DCM see’s that LCM is not configured
and configures it for the appropriate
Pull Server
5. LCM reaches out to the Pull Server to
configure its role and applications
from here on in
Group
Policy
DCM
DSC
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Editor's Notes
Note: Scale * Complexity => exceeds our skill level…
Demo: ConfigurationEnv
Assert-Website with ConfigurationEnv1.psd1
(show easy configuration and flow of $Node, etc)
Demo: Continuous Deployment
cd ..\WebsiteWithVM
simply show number of machines change…
Assert-Website with ConfigurationEnv.psd1
Show consistency of Structural Configuration
Demo: SCVMM and DSC (?) or at Ecosystem time
Obviously DSC is not itself a Fabric Controller, but SC happens to have one… where DSC can easily integrate
Unfortunately at this time Microsoft has a lot of overlapping technologies and no clear story. This is because we are in the midst of extreme change in IT.
Traditionally, we have used Group Policy as this is a way to set what we want and enforce it. However, this comes with some inherent issues:1. Process - Because Active Directory is involved in delivering Group Policy, the Active Directory team are often involved in the process of configuration changes for Servers. They have to vet the Policy, be the ones to implement and apply it, be the ones to roll it back. Sometimes teams are delegated their own GPO admin rights but not often
2. Rigidity - Once a GPO is applied the settings are enforced and cannot be changed. In a troubleshooting scenario this can create an issue, you may need to legitimately stop a service, remove some settings. You have to fight against GPO
3. You cannot control Processing Order
4. It’s hard to tell if systems that are part of a service are in compliance of everything they are meant to have applied
At the same time you have DCM that does do a lot of this itself but if you use DCM you then shift the problem to the SCCM Console rather than AD. Application Teams need to have SCCM Knowledge and permissions, or, they depend on the SCCM Team to deliver what they need. Configuration Management is about enabling DevOps scenarios to deliver
Active Directory Team – They care about Identity & Access management. They want to ensure the appropriate level of Security is implemented but are not interested in what else is happening on the server
Systems Management Team – They care that the Server is being manager i.e. Part of a lifecycle, managed by SCCM, Security standards are in effect i.e. the Server is using the right Certificates and connected to the right Pull Server with no Rogue settings, they too do not care about the application
Application Team – Can be given the freedom to change the server and application as needed to run the service. Cannot change the LCM to Go-Rogue, do not need Administrator rights to the Server because they are not making Manual changes, can prove the changes they are making through MOF File differences, speed up their Change process.