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

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 https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC