2025-10-15 Notes

Recording

Agenda

Community presentation

None

Topics

• Discovery and Performance Improvements: How JSON manifests and caching enhance resource discovery speed.
• Schema Validation & Intellisense: Leveraging JSON schema for pre-validation and better authoring experiences in VS Code.
• New Resource Methods: Overview of get, set, test, export, and delete methods, plus support for what-if operations.
• Integration with Azure & Bicep: Vision for declarative infrastructure deployment and node configuration.
• Export Functionality: Practical examples using Chocolatey packages and discussion on Puppet integration.
• Community Insights: Real-world feedback from deployments, migration challenges, and future roadmap considerations.

The call also touches on conference opportunities, trace messaging improvements, and the role of DSC in tools like WinGet Configure.

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Updated on 15 Oct 2025