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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

By : David das Neves, Jan-Hendrik Peters
Book Image

Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

By: David das Neves, Jan-Hendrik Peters

Overview of this book

Beginning with an overview of the different versions of PowerShell, Learn PowerShell Core 6.0 introduces you to VSCode and then dives into helping you understand the basic techniques in PowerShell scripting. You will cover advanced coding techniques, learn how to write reusable code as well as store and load data with PowerShell. This book will help you understand PowerShell security and Just Enough Administration, enabling you to create your own PowerShell repository. The last set of chapters will guide you in setting up, configuring, and working with Release Pipelines in VSCode and VSTS, and help you understand PowerShell DSC. In addition to this, you will learn how to use PowerShell with Windows, Azure, Microsoft Online Services, SCCM, and SQL Server. The final chapter will provide you with some use cases and pro tips. By the end of this book, you will be able to create professional reusable code using security insight and knowledge of working with PowerShell Core 6.0 and its most important capabilities.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Resource group deployment


Aside from PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell, you can use the Azure cmdlets to deploy entire resource groups. The idea of resource group deployment is that the groups can be integrated into your CI pipeline, much like DSC configurations and modules. The resource groups in Azure are also a way of defining Infrastructure as Code (IaC), like we saw in Chapter 12, PowerShell Desired State Configuration, with DSC.

The following screenshot from the Azure portal shows how a resource group deployment template might look like with different resource types, variables and parameters.

You can easily retrieve resource group templates from existing resource groups by choosing the option Automation Script. This includes the template to be used, as well as the variables and parameters that are fed into the template. We saw the same concept in Chapter 12PowerShell Desired State Configuration, with DSC configurations and configuration data.

For beginners, new templates can easily be...