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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

What is DevOps?


Before delving into the topic, we need to get a clear definition of what DevOps is. The term itself is a combination of development and operations, describing the strong bond that developers and operations people need to form in order to truly succeed.

"DevOps is a set of practices intended to reduce the time between committing a change being placed into normal production, while ensuring high quality." – DevOps – A Software Architect's Perspective (Bass, Weber, Zhu for Addison-Wesley 2015)

The term DevOps was first coined by Andrew Clay Shafer and Patrick Debois in 2008. As you can see, DevOps cannot be considered new anymore. The idea has been around for some time and has matured and grown. Still, many IT people, developers and operations alike, have not yet seen DevOps in action, let alone embraced a DevOps mindset.

Even though many people throw DevOps into the same bucket as agile development, it is not the same thing. A strong DevOps culture supports agile projects, but...