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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

Chapter 9. DevOps with PowerShell

In the previous chapter, we talked about Just Enough Administration, and how it can effectively restrict the permissions of users logging on to your servers.

In this chapter, you'll learn what DevOps is about, and why it has gained such importance in many IT environments. CI and CD are explained to provide basic information for the following chapters. Why does it make sense to combine DevOps ideas with PowerShell? This chapter explains the benefits of PowerShell and the different possibilities for using it in a DevOps context. Additionally, you will learn about PowerShell release pipelines, which will be introduced in the following chapter.

 

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • What is DevOps?
  • Why DevOps?
  • Test-driven development
  • Continuous integration
  • Continuous deployment
  • What are the challenges of DevOps?
  • The value of PowerShell