Thanks to tacticalogic for the heads-up!!
Posted on 05/10/2015 7:32:24 PM PDT by dayglored
In yet another sign that Microsoft is a very different animal these days, the company has released PowerShell DSC (desired state configuration) for Linux.
PowerShell DSC is a server configuration tool that has hitherto driven Windows Server boxen. But Microsoft's now decided it has a “commitment to common management of heterogeneous assets in your datacenter or the public cloud”, so has added Linux-wrangling features to the tool.
The new code can cope with CentOS, Debian GNU/Linux, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and Ubuntu Server. Once you get it up and running you can enjoy the following tools:
(list too long to excerpt, see link to Register article)
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
Thanks to tacticalogic for the heads-up!!
Hey, I’ve talked to that guy!!
Will it manage Windows servers?
Porting their MS centric tools over to other OSs, with much of the windows functionality missing?
A truly reformed MS would ditch their proprietary power shell for a POSIX compliant shell.
Methinks this is more of "Lucy and the football".
LOL!
I can’t imagine polluting Linux with powershell.
Color me unimpressed. Powershell was never more than a strained imitation of Unix shell scripting and still does not have the power. Got some handy wrinkles, though. I wouldn’t give it up but is certainly isn’t the Holy Grail.
What the hell is a "boxen"? Is it a plural, like a boxen of donuts?
Plural, precisely. Box as in "computer system".
I first heard the usage back in the 80's, referring to multiple DEC VAX-11 machines as "VAXen", and boxes of other flavors as "boxen".
Color me unimpressed. Powershell was never more than a strained imitation of Unix shell scripting and still does not have the power. Got some handy wrinkles, though. I wouldn’t give it up but is certainly isn’t the Holy Grail.I think PowerShell is greatly superior to the classical Unix shell. In PowerShell, you have real objects with properties and methods going through the command pipeline. In the Unix shell, all you have is an unformatted stream of octets, which you then have to parse again and again with crude tools like (f|e)grep, sed and/or awk to get at the information you want.
ps | where { $_.ProcessName -eq "hexchat" } | select WS
is just better than having to grep the ASCII output of "ps", then using awk to get at the column value for the memory usage.
(Of course, PowerShell's ps command even supports giving it the process name as an Argument, as in "ps hexchat").
What’s more, you have the entire .NET Framework available in your scripts, plus various remoting capabilities, etc. The Unix shell still feels like it’s 1975 again in comparison.
There's lots of Windows admins out there yet that can't imagine managing anything without a GUI.
Well, I know what I’ll be playing with tonight! I love the direction Microsoft is taking.
That's changing. You can't get a Microsoft certification without being fluent in PowerShell. I know that for a fact, because I just earned my MCSA last Friday, and PowerShell was prominent in every single exam.
Those of us who take our jobs seriously use PowerShell religiously.
I know. That business of not being able to imagine running Powershell on a Linux box might change too.
Would just be a matter of running the libraries in Linux. I have to imagine they can do some sort of code transformations.
No UNIX Aficionado from my day ever had to leave emacs to do their work including their work on the side to define the meaning of life.
Oh, I’m sorry. Discussions of emacs are reserved for the religious forum. (LOL)
In python you can write shell scripts that are object oriented, use existing frameworks and roll your own objects/framework if you need to and can do it with or without a GUI ( ie. The Idiot Interface ).
There is about 4 or 5 other utilities with the same power in UNIX. They’ve been around for decades! Welcome to the party pal!
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