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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

Best practice guidelines


Before you can get serious about creating your own reusable code (in the form of functions and modules), you have to think about common best practices and why they exist. You need to get used to following best practices when writing code. In short, applying best practices should come naturally to you.

In an enterprise environment, there are usually code policies already in place. However, they are often tailored to in-house development, using traditional development frameworks like .NET or Java. That should not deter you from adopting the policies as guidelines for your PowerShell code. In this section, you will see that many of the best practices for writing PowerShell code are similar to, if not the same as, other programming languages.

Note

See https://github.com/PoshCode/PowerShellPracticeAndStyle for a community-maintained approach to PowerShell best practices.

The first thing that we need to elaborate on is the general structure of your code.

Code layout

There are...