What's an Azure Arc Guest Configuration? Richard talks to Jodi Boone about the freshly renamed Machine Configuration for Azure Arc. It turns out "guest" is a problematic word - but being able to set policy around machine configurations can make your life much easier. Jodi talks about using existing policy templates, along with Desired State Configuration, to customize configurations so that they can be applied to multiple virtual machines on Azure, on-premises, and in other cloud environments.

Links:

• Configuration for Azure Arc-enabled Servers
• Desired State Configuration
• Azure Automation State Configuration
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes
• Azure Management Services
• DSC Extension for Linux
• Setting up a Machine Configuration Authoring Enviroment

Recorded November 3, 2023