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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

By : das Neves, Jan-Hendrik Peters
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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

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By: 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 (21 chapters)
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Scalable DSC configuration

This deep dive will feature scalable node data generation that can be used with DSC by leveraging multiple PowerShell modules. The most important one that enables this process is called Datum and is being developed by Gael Colas (@gaelcolas on Twitter; follow him).

The problem

The problem many individuals and organizations face when starting with DSC is the utter lack of tooling around this framework. The examples that are publicly available often tackle either very simple or overly specific configurations.

Almost none of those examples seem to deal well with scalable and simple node data generation.

Take a scenario with hundreds of different virtual or physical machines, playing different...

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