Discovering Azure Automanage Machine Configuration by Gael Colas

Slides from the following meetup: https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/microsoft-azure-zurich-user-group/events/291425573/

Discovering Azure Automanage Machine Configuration
In this session we’ll discover a fairly new service in Azure to configure and audit both Windows or Linux VMs. We’ll first discover how you can audit compliance but also remediate non-compliance with built-in resources. Then we’ll dive into writing your own custom packages in PowerShell to cater for all your scenarios!

About Gael:
Gael is a Consultant in the DevOps, Automation, Azure and PowerShell space, recently moved to Vaud, Switzerland, where he just opened a branch of his UK-based consulting company. Gael has worked for London-based Hedge funds, and blue-chip companies, and was awarded Microsoft MVP in Cloud and Datacenter Management since 2017. Community enthusiast and fervent DevOps advocate, Gael helps organising user groups and other conferences such as the PowerShell Conference Europe, PSDayUK, the London PowerShell User Group, and the Swiss PowerShell User Group and other events...

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Transcript

1. IaC: Azure Automanage for
   Machine Configuration
   Gael Colas
   

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2. @gaelcolas
   Gael Colas
   ▪PowerShell / DSC expert & consultant
   ▪PowerShell Working Group Member
   ▪DSC Community Committee Member
   ▪Microsoft MVP
   ▪Director @ SynEdgy (PSConfEU, PSDayUK…)
   ▪Switzerland and UK these days, mostly…
   

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3. @gaelcolas
   PowerShell Conference Europe
   ▪80 Sessions
   ▪45 speakers / 300 Attendees
   ▪4 Days
   ▪Microsoft
   ▪PowerShell team members (4)
   ▪WinGet PM (1)
   ▪PowerShell Community Dinner
   https://psconf.eu
   

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4. @gaelcolas
   Agenda
   ▪What is a Configuration as Code
   ▪The DSC Platform
   ▪Past, Present, Future
   ▪Azure Automanage Machine Configuration
   ▪Aka Azure Policy Guest Configuration
   

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5. @gaelcolas
   What is a Desired State
   Configuration Management principle
   

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6. @gaelcolas
   The problem
   You are
   here
   You
   want to
   get
   there
   State State
   Transform Transform Transform
   A Configuration is a Directed Acyclic Graph
   

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7. @gaelcolas
   Rollback is a fallacy
   You are
   here
   You
   want to
   get
   there
   State State
   Transform Transform Transform
   State
   

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8. @gaelcolas
   It’s all about data
   

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9. @gaelcolas
   Traditional Management
   ▪Guesstimate the current state
   ▪Apply (imperative) changes following a procedure
   ▪Implement monitoring
   ▪Document the changes
   ▪pray
   

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10. @gaelcolas
    Make it so
    ▪Define the desired state
    ▪Converge
    ▪Capture drift
    ▪Remediate drift
    

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11. @gaelcolas
    Why Infra as Code
    Baseline
    Baseline
    P
    D
    C
    A P
    D
    C
    A
    P
    D
    C
    A P
    D
    C
    A
    PLAN
    DO
    CHECK
    ACT
    Deming Cycles
    

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12. @gaelcolas
    Desired State Configuration
    Aka PSDSC
    

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13. @gaelcolas
    All the DSCs
    ▪PSDSC: PowerShell Desired State Configuration
    ▪DSC vs DSC:
    ▪DSL: Domain Specific Language
    ▪Agents
    ▪Pull Server & Reporting
    ▪Azure DSC
    

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14. @gaelcolas
    The DSC Community
    People and code
    

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15. @gaelcolas
    DSC Community
    ▪https://dsccommunit.org
    ▪Community Calls every 6 weeks
    ▪ Sessions from community and product groups
    ▪ Open questions
    ▪ Community release updates
    ▪https://github.com/dsccommunity
    

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16. @gaelcolas
    Azure Automanage Machine
    Configuration
    Simple, no?
    

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17. @gaelcolas
    Creating DSC Resources
    With class…
    

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18. @gaelcolas
    Q&A
    15 minutes
    

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