Today, Microsoft claims that Linux runs like a first-class citizen on Azure. .NET Core has been open sourced, and has been ported over to Linux, taking PowerShell along with it. PowerShell runs really well on Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat Linux, and even macOS. In the last decade, since its birth, PowerShell has propelled automation extensively due to several of its qualities such as flexibility, dynamism, remoting capabilities, and modularity, not to mention being baked into the operating system.
SQL Server is one of the greatest benefactors of PowerShell, having several database management and automation capabilities built in. Ever since PowerShell, we've found it a lot easier to load the related modules and invoke the respective cmdlets to take care of several day-to-day activities, from simple querying to complex maintenance...