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Status: Resolved
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Resolution: Fixed
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Needs Assessment
Description
This work should impact DSC_Lite README
Existing DSC type wrappers
- For Microsoft released / community resources requires Puppet to issue new modules with new vendored content
- For custom resources, requires following a separate build procedure involving Ruby tooling and releasing custom module internally (does allow for unnecessary resources to be stripped from custom module)
- Type wrappers are specifically versioned with their corresponding DSC resource counterparts - no possibility for a manifest definition to mismatch against the actual DSC resource. All content vendored together makes initial consumption model for users simple.
- Module is fairly heavyweight for pluginsync, especially given it will generally be synced to Linux hosts where it cannot run
- No puppet resource support
- No property by property reporting - DSC doesn't differentiate between properties and parameters like Puppet does, which makes it difficult
- Type wrappers provide up-front parse-time validation based on MOF schemas, so no need to call into DSC runtime to verify type checks (i.e. string, int, etc)
- No ability to support PowerShell class based resources currently
- No ability to support composite resources
- PE console reporting specificies individual resource types / provides grouping and filtering over them
New DSC_lite generic wrapper
- No parse-time validation performed by Puppet - must defer validation until runtime when DSC resources are executed
- Consume any resource that is available on the host - no need to use vendored content
- Can use Puppet more granularly to distribute DSC resources if desired
- Can use multiple versions of same resource easily on a resource-by-resource basis
- Console reporting only shows dsc, and not any specific dsc resource types - work to investigate this further in
MODULES-5970 - The dsc resource properties hash is conceptually more similar to PowerShell DSC resource definition - there are also no dsc_ prefixes necessary for DSC properties
- Extremely lightweight module given it vendors no content - includes approximately 10 files
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Issue Links
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MODULES-6378 dsc_lite : Update readme
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- Resolved
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- links to