Powershell Core 6.2 Cookbook
eBook - ePub

Powershell Core 6.2 Cookbook

Leverage command-line shell scripting to effectively manage your enterprise environment

  1. 372 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Powershell Core 6.2 Cookbook

Leverage command-line shell scripting to effectively manage your enterprise environment

About this book

Make use of hands-on recipes for many tasks that are typically encountered in both the on-premises as well as the cloud world.

Key Features

  • A recipe-based guide to help you build effective administrative solutions
  • Gain hands-on experience with the newly added features of PowerShell Core
  • Manage critical business environments with professional scripting practices

Book Description

This book will follow a recipe-based approach and start off with an introduction to the fundamentals of PowerShell, and explaining how to install and run it through simple examples. Next, you will learn how to use PowerShell to access and manipulate data and how to work with different streams as well. You will also explore the object model which will help with regard to PowerShell function deployment. Going forward, you will get familiar with the pipeline in its different use cases. The next set of chapters will deal with the different ways of accessing data in PowerShell. You will also learn to automate various tasks in Windows and Linux using PowerShell Core, as well as explore Windows Server. Later, you will be introduced to Remoting in PowerShell Core and Just Enough Administration concept. The last set of chapters will help you understand the management of a private and public cloud with PowerShell Core. You will also learn how to access web services and explore the high-performance scripting methods.

By the end of this book, you will gain the skills to manage complex tasks effectively along with increasing the performance of your environment.

What you will learn

  • Leverage cross-platform interaction with systems
  • Make use of the PowerShell recipes for frequent tasks
  • Get a better understanding of the inner workings of PowerShell
  • Understand the compatibility of built-in Windows modules with PowerShell Core
  • Learn best practices associated with PowerShell scripting
  • Avoid common pitfalls and mistakes

Who this book is for

This book will be for windows administrators who want to enhance their PowerShell scripting skills to the next level. System administrators wanting to automate common to complex tasks with PowerShell scripts would benefit from this book. Prior understanding on PowerShell would be necessary.

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Contributors

About the author

Jan-Hendrik Peters is an automation and DevOps professional by day, and a developer for the AutomatedLab framework by night. After working at an international retailer automating distributed POS support systems, he started working as a premier field engineer for Microsoft Germany, where he helps customers automate their infrastructure on-premises and in the cloud.
When he is not working, he likes to spend his time brewing his own beer, curing his own bacon, and generally doing manual labor.

About the reviewers

Jose Angel Muñoz is a systems engineer with more than 20 years' experience in Linux and Windows systems administration. He is currently working for RAET, where he has discovered the magic of automation and infrastructure as code. Jose Angel also collaborates with Ansible, creating new Python and PowerShell modules.
Previously, he collaborated with the Linux Magazine, where he published several technical articles on a variety of topics, including monitoring, security, virtualization, and development.
Friedrich Weinmann, a former Microsoft MVP for his engagement in the PowerShell community nowadays works as a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft.
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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright and Credits
  3. About Packt
  4. Contributors
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction to PowerShell Core
  7. Reading and Writing Output
  8. Working with Objects
  9. Mastering the Pipeline
  10. Importing, Using, and Exporting Data
  11. Windows and Linux Administration
  12. Windows Server Administration
  13. Remoting and Just Enough Administration
  14. Using PowerShell for Hyper-V and Azure Stack Management
  15. Using PowerShell with Azure and Google Cloud
  16. Accessing Web Services
  17. High-Performance Scripting
  18. Other Books You May Enjoy

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