Many forms of DevOps have developed over the years. WinOps is one of them and describes DevOps in Windows-centric environments. At the WinOps conference, like-minded DevOps professionals meet and network. Here, tools such as Puppet and Vagrant are explored, and of course, PowerShell and, Desired State Configuration:

Since we are talking about PowerShell in this book, the likelihood that you come from an organization that uses Microsoft operating systems or products is rather high. This is what makes this conference and the WinOps movement very interesting.