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PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

By : Prashanth Jayaram, Ram Iyer
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PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

By: Prashanth Jayaram, Ram Iyer

Overview of this book

PowerShell Core, the open source, cross-platform that is based on the open source, cross-platform .NET Core, is not a shell that came out by accident; it was intentionally created to be versatile and easy to learn at the same time. PowerShell Core enables automation on systems ranging from the Raspberry Pi to the cloud. PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook uses simple, real-world examples that teach you how to use PowerShell to effectively administer your environment. As you make your way through the book, you will cover interesting recipes on how PowerShell Core can be used to quickly automate complex, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks. In the concluding chapters, you will learn how to develop scripts to automate tasks that involve systems and enterprise management. By the end of this book, you will have learned about the automation capabilities of PowerShell Core, including remote management using OpenSSH, cross-platform enterprise management, working with Docker containers, and managing SQL databases.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Generating HTML reports

HTML is one of the most simple and useful formats of all types when it comes to reporting – and PowerShell is perfectly capable of working with it. For example, let's say I need to pull process information from multiple remote machines and put it onto an intranet web server. You can do this with very little effort.

Getting ready

Let's pull the script from the GitHub repository for this book and pipe it to convert to HTML. We also need the input.csv file for remote machine traversing.

How to do it...

Let's see what this looks...