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Is DSC basically nix for windows?

• abrookewood 2y ago
  No, it's a configuration management tool (similar to Salt, Puppet & Chef) where you declare what you want the end result to be and it takes care of the rest. I used v1 a long time ago, but moved to Salt shortly after and now we do everything in Terraform.
  • jitl 2y ago
    Isn’t that what Nix is though? A declarative language to specify how to produce a $THING; it will produce a package, a system image, or a cluster.
    • indemnity 2y ago
      Nix actually works ;)
    • soraminazuki 2y ago
      The thing is, Chef and friends aren't declarative at all. They're imperative scripts cosplaying in declarative-ish syntax. The more you use it, the more it begins to look like a complex bash script with way too many levels of indirection.