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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6

By : Ramesh Waghmare
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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6

By: Ramesh Waghmare

Overview of this book

AWS Tools for PowerShell 6 shows you exactly how to automate all the aspects of AWS. You can take advantage of the amazing power of the cloud, yet add powerful scripts and mechanisms to perform common tasks faster than ever before. This book expands on the Amazon documentation with real-world, useful examples and production-ready scripts to automate all the aspects of your new cloud platform. It will cover topics such as managing Windows with PowerShell, setting up security services, administering database services, and deploying and managing networking. You will also explore advanced topics such as PowerShell authoring techniques, and configuring and managing storage and content delivery. By the end of this book, you will be able to use Amazon Web Services to automate and manage Windows servers. You will also have gained a good understanding of automating the AWS infrastructure using simple coding.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Installing PowerShell 6 on Linux

For Linux installation, there are several ways. As indicated previously, you can download the rpm package, or you can do it using the yum install. Here, I am demonstrating on Red Hat 7 using yum, which is quiet easy. Just make sure your Linux server is connected to the internet; if not, download the rpm package and install it. As highlighted earlier, do not forget to review the instruction set for your platform. Sometimes, there are little deviations from version to version, and some known issues are highlighted. So, instead of scratching your head, a quick scan through the instruction set is a real good help.

PowerShell Core for Linux is published on official Microsoft repositories for easy installation. Perform the following instructions as a root user or your user needs to have sudo rights:

# Register the Microsoft RedHat repository
curl https...