Re:Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
by spion on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @08:25AM
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A problem with the Windows tech stack is the culture of automation (or lack thereof). Sure there is PowerShell, but often times critical tools insist on giving you a GUI instead of providing something that can be incorporated into a script. And even when they do offer scriptability, its much less documented than the GUI.
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Re:Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
by Nick-Craver on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @11:22AM
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There is Desired State Configuration (DSC) in Windows 2012+ (native in 2012 R2+), we are using it here at Stack Exchange and just deployed an entire data center via DSC. I highly suggest checking it out...think puppet on windows without ruby and with powershell. It is v1 and providers for smaller stuff are still coming, but we're already open sourcing the modules we're creating as we go: https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC
Re:Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
by edraferi on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @09:18AM
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This was a revelation to me when I first started working with Linux. Because you work on the command line all the time, it's relatively straightforward to write shell scripts to do repeated tasks for you (good shell scripts of course, is another matter). Within the Windows environment it's much more difficult to switch between interactive and scripted modes.