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Requirements
PowerShell framework for declaratively defining and idempotently imposing system configurations
The Requirements framework itself is quite simple to work with. There is a gotcha about using abstractions and control flow statements. You'll need to call .GetNewClosure() to ensure variable values are captured within the defined scriptblocks. The challenging part is breaking down the necessary desired state into its atomic components. A lot of the tools we use try to be helpful and change a lot of system state with a single command. That's great for some informal command-line work, but when you want a reliable script, building a declarative, idempotent script is going to save you time and effort in the long run.
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winget-cli
WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).
I install a lot of software. Of course, I prefer to automate it. I frequently use Chocolatey, Puppet, winget, Docker, Octopus Deploy, Kubernetes, DSC, and running random scripts off of the Internet to put software on anywhere from one to a few hundred systems at once. This is not an uncommon task for a person in the technical operations field. What's annoying is each of the tools works differently with different ways of controlling flow, abstracting repetitive code, and escaping quotes.
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
