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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

SHiPS


SHiPS is one of those very useful modules that you didn't know you were missing, but which you cannot stop using once you've tried it. The module is available from the PowerShell Gallery, and is actively developed on GitHub. SHiPS can be used to create a custom PSProvider.

To get started with SHiPS, review our section on classes in Chapter 6, Working with Data. SHiPS uses classes and inheritance to build out your hierarchy in PowerShell.

In any PSDrive, there are either containers or leaves. A container would, for example, be a certificate store or a folder, whereas a leaf would be a certificate or a file. Where your data comes from doesn't matter, as long as it can be accessed from within PowerShell.

As an example, we will build access to our private cloud, running on HyperV with SHiPS. The cloud environment contains a tenant as a container, which in our example will simply be localhost. The tenant contains multiple resource types organized in further containers, such as disks, network...