How to use "*" in nodeName

Question

Say I have 2 roles in my DSC setup and I have variable amount of nodes in my setup:

$configdata = @{
    AllNodes = @(
        @{
            NodeName = "*Web*" # < problem lies here
                      # can be prodWeb## or devWeb##
            Role = "IIS", "basic"
        }
        @{
            NodeName = "*"
            Role = "basic"
        }
    )
}

DSC resource:

Configuration CFG
{   
    $AllNodes.where{ $_.Role.Contains("Basic") }.NodeName 
    {
    ...
    }

    $AllNodes.where{ $_.Role.Contains("IIS") }.NodeName 
    {
    ...
    }
}

Can I achieve that?

Answer 1

So, basically what I've done is this:

Configuration Windows
{   
    node $allnodes.NodeName {
        switch ($Node.Role) {
            "Role1" {
                ...
            }
            "Role2" {
                ...
            }
            "Role3" {
                ...
            }
        }
    }
}

My configuration data:

@{ AllNodes = @( @{ NodeName = "web"; Role = "Role1", "Role2" } ) }

And for another set of nodes:

@{ AllNodes = @( @{ NodeName = "other"; Role = "Role1", "Role3" } ) }

I'm using Azure Automation to assign configurations to nodes, so it doesn't check the node name, it just applies whatever roles the configuration had at compile time.