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PowerShell DSC Linux agents

• Note: This is not the latest version of this software. The latest version of this software can be found at https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerShell-DSC-for-Linux/releases
  
  PowerShell Desired State Configuration for Linux enables automated configuration management of Linux servers with PowerShell DSC.
  
  Features in this release:
  • Push and Pull configuration mode support
  • Ten "Built-In" resources for configuration of the Linux operating system
  • Partial configuration support with Pull mode
  Supported Linux Operating Systems
  • CentOS 5, 6 and 7 (x86/x64)
  • Debian GNU/Linux 6, and 7(x86/x64)
  • Oracle Linux 5, 6 and 7 (x86/x64)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5, 6 and 7 (x86/x64)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, 11 and 12 (x86/x64)
  • Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS and 14.04 LTS (x86/x64)

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	Size
PowerShell DSC for Linux Release Notes.docx SHA1: 49f4c68cea80ccaf0283d1942082c4cb263b8168	18 KB
PSDSCforLinuxSetup.msi SHA1: 851819e45bb34db1137a74639a5161dc09a378ee	18.55 MB

• • On the Linux computer
  • Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) 1.0.8-2
  • Python and Python ctypes
  • libcurl
  • openssl
  
  Other Software
  • Windows computer to extract the Linux installation packages

• 1. Download and install the PowerShell DSC for Linux installation package
  2. Copy the appropriate Linux installation package to your Linux computer from the installation directory
  3. Install the Linux package prerequisites and PowerShell DSC for Linux package on your Linux computer