If you’re all being good little Windows opscoders, you’ll be using DSC. And if, like me, you’ve upgraded to WMF 5.0 (PowerShell 5.0), you may have noticed a few new warning messages popping up in your logs
You do look at your logs, right?
Good.
Well, you may have been seeing this little warning of late
WARNING: The configuration ‘ExampleDSCConfig’ is loading one or more built-in resources without explicitly importing associated modules. Add Import-DscResource –ModuleName ‘PSDesiredStateConfiguration’ to your configuration to avoid this message.
I’ve certainly been seeing it. It hasn’t done any harm. Nothing breaks, it’s just a warning. I’ll get round to fixing it eventually.
Well, in the last day or so, I rolled WMF 5.0 into my production server fleet – a couple of hundred servers all up – and today I’ve had developers asking me why their Octopus Deploy projects are generating warnings now. Continue reading →