Configuring Virtual Machines Using Desired State Configuration - Part 5 - Creating a Pull Service
Hello and welcome to an article on how to create your own Powershell DSC Pull Service. This is the fifth article of the series and things are starting to build our own DSC infrastructure. To configure the DSC Pull Service we are going to need a windows server machine running at least Powershell v5 and a certifite. For the purpose of this post, I've created a dedicated machine and the certificate that I'm going to use is issued by my Active Directory Certificate Services. What would be the easiest way to create a Pull Service? DSC of course. We are going to push a DSC configuration to our machine that is going to convert it to a DSC Pull Service! First off, we're going to need that certificate installed in the Personal container of the machine. I prefer using my CA to issue certificates since it is trusted by all the domain member machines and for this one I've enrolled for a certificate based on the Web Server template: You can use any web server certificate as long as...