Practical Automation with PowerShell

about the technology

Most repetitive tasks you face as an administrator or DevOps engineer can be automated using PowerShell. Mastering the basics of this powerful language, along with some best practices for saving and sharing your automations, can radically improve the consistency and efficiency of your work.

about the book

Practical Automation with PowerShell teaches you how to build, organize, and share useful automations with PowerShell. You''ll start with development skills you might not have learned as a sysadmin, including techniques to help you structure and manage your code, and common pitfalls to avoid. You''ll quickly progress to essential factors for sharable automations, such as securely storing information, connecting to remote machines, and creating automations that can adapt to different use cases. Finally, you''ll take your automations out into the world. You''ll learn how to share them with your team or end users, and build front ends that allow non-technical people to run them at the touch of a button.