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 ...
Only if someone else mentions vi, the text editor that's better than poking your eye out with a sharp stick.
Ah, yes, emacs: the best operating system ever that included a free text editor. :-)
I don't engage in religious arguments, been avoiding them for 35+ years. Actually 45+ if you include TECO, the editor that masquerades as line noise.
The objective of DSC is to provide a common platform and scripting language for cross platform management.
The "old Microsoft" wouldn't have been the least bit interested in helping you manage those Linux boxes. They'd be telling you that you need to rip them out and replace them with Windows servers.
And they still aren't. They are interested in admins switching to their tools (i.e. Powershell), instead of MS providing a loosely coupled set of POSIX shell based tools, adopting the U*inx way, which has been in use for decades.
More proof it's still the old Microsoft, they just change their logo every few years and self proclaim they are really, really different this time.
Do you bitch about developers adopting object-oriented programming languages too?
That would be the windowing Korn shell as part of the MKS toolkit :; (for windows )
That sounds like fun. Two disparate operating systems, and a third-party app in the middle.
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