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Powershell Core 6.2 Cookbook

By : Jan-Hendrik Peters
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Powershell Core 6.2 Cookbook

By: Jan-Hendrik Peters

Overview of this book

This book will follow a recipe-based approach and start off with an introduction to the fundamentals of PowerShell, and explaining how to install and run it through simple examples. Next, you will learn how to use PowerShell to access and manipulate data and how to work with different streams as well. You will also explore the object model which will help with regard to PowerShell function deployment. Going forward, you will get familiar with the pipeline in its different use cases. The next set of chapters will deal with the different ways of accessing data in PowerShell. You will also learn to automate various tasks in Windows and Linux using PowerShell Core, as well as explore Windows Server. Later, you will be introduced to Remoting in PowerShell Core and Just Enough Administration concept. The last set of chapters will help you understand the management of a private and public cloud with PowerShell Core. You will also learn how to access web services and explore the high-performance scripting methods. By the end of this book, you will gain the skills to manage complex tasks effectively along with increasing the performance of your environment.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Using PowerShell for Hyper-V and Azure Stack Management

This chapter is all about the private cloud. Through very simple recipes, you will see how to automate an on-premises Hyper-V environment as well as an on-premises Azure Stack that may or may not be integrated into Azure.

We will cover the following topics:

  • Setting up Hyper-V
  • Setting up Azure Stack
  • Virtual networks in Hyper-V
  • Virtual networks in Azure Stack
  • Provisioning storage in Hyper-V
  • Provisioning storage in Azure Stack
  • Provisioning compute resources in Hyper-V
  • Provisioning compute resources in Azure Stack
  • Creating a compute cluster with DSC
  • Configuring guests with DSC on Hyper-V
  • Configuring guests with DSC on Azure Stack