Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC for Linux, Supporting Ubuntu, Debian, SLES, Red Hat | Linux Today

Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC for Linux, Supporting Ubuntu, Debian, SLES, Red Hat

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Marius Nestor
May 7, 2015

After shocking the world by releasing Visual Studio Code for Linux, Microsoft had the pleasure of announcing today the immediate availability for download of PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for GNU/Linux operating systems. Microsoft’s PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration) is an open source platform that has been designed from the offset to let system administrators manage the configuration of both Linux and Windows workloads with a familiar PowerShell interface.

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Marius Nestor

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