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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

Why DevOps


By embracing DevOps, you will reap many benefits, the first one being that Dev and Ops are brought closer together. Busting silos inside your company can free you from the daily squabbles between Dev and Ops, and help everyone be more effective. With DevOps also come several other benefits, such as traceability of deployments, reliability, and speed.

Usually, adopters of DevOps want to continuously release their services, applications, or infrastructure from development through user acceptance testing and quality assurance, and into production. This is also known as continuous delivery or continuous deployment, which we will have a look at later on.

Traceability

By deploying infrastructure DevOps style, as code, for example, by using Desired State Configuration, you will increase the traceability of your deployments. This is very important in order to see what happened during a build, which components are deployed on a VM, and so on.

Usually, when we're talking about DevOps we need...