Question on Puppet and Windows

[Moses Hernandez]

I am about to start a project that is mix of linux and mostly windows. I would say that 60-70% of the environment will be Windows Servers. I have a concern that the new PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration) may provide me more benefit than Puppet on Windows. I was wondering if anyone had a comparison pros and cons for Windows DSC vs Puppet on Windows? I currently know that I will want to use Puppet to manage my *nix devices and the thought of having to maintain two separate configuration management tools for such a small environment makes me cringe. Just wondering what the list thoughts are.

[Rob Reynolds]

Here's a place where you can test out the different resources for DSC. https://github.com/ferventcoder/vagrant-windows-puppet/tree/master/boxes/microsoft-dsc (specifically https://github.com/ferventcoder/vagrant-windows-puppet/blob/master/boxes/microsoft-dsc/powershelldsc/Test.ps1).

If you find that some of them do not work as well you might have thought, please remember that DSC is a v1 product.

Also keep in mind that DSC will only work on Windows Server 2008 R2+ and Windows 7 SP1+. I put together a chocolatey package for installing DSC. http://chocolatey.org/packages/powershell4

I would be curious to know others feedback on PowerShell DSC.

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Moses Hernandez <mo...@moses.io> wrote:

I am about to start a project that is mix of linux and mostly windows. I would say that 60-70% of the environment will be Windows Servers. I have a concern that the new PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration) may provide me more benefit than Puppet on Windows. I was wondering if anyone had a comparison pros and cons for Windows DSC vs Puppet on Windows? I currently know that I will want to use Puppet to manage my *nix devices and the thought of having to maintain two separate configuration management tools for such a small environment makes me cringe. Just wondering what the list thoughts are.

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[Marc Sutter]

Hi,

There is also a puppet dsc module now: https://forge.puppetlabs.com/msutter/dsc