Dowst Matthew. Practical Automation with PowerShell: Effective scripting from the console to the cloud

Manning Publications, 2023. — 640 p. — ISBN: 978-1617299551.Take PowerShell beyond simple scripts and build time-saving automations for your team, your users, and the world.In Practical Automation with PowerShell you will learn how to:
Build PowerShell functions to automate common and complex tasks.
Create smart automations that are adaptable to new challenges.
Structure your code for sharing and reusability.
Store and secure your automations.
Execute automations with Azure Automation, Jenkins, Task Scheduler, and Cron.
Share your automations with your team and non-technical colleagues.
Store and retrieve data, credentials, and variables.
Use source control solutions to maintain and test code changes.
Provide front-end UI solutions for PowerShell automations.Practical Automation in PowerShell reveals how you can use PowerShell to build automation solutions for a huge number of common admin and DevOps tasks. Author Matthew Dowst uses his decades of experience to lay out a real blueprint for setting up an enterprise scripting environment with PowerShell. The book goes beyond the basics to show you how to handle the unforeseen complexities that can keep automations from becoming reusable and resilient. From the console to the cloud, you'll learn how to manage your code, avoid common pitfalls, and create sharable automations that are adaptable to different use cases.While most people know PowerShell as a command-line tool, it is truly much more than that. If you look at Microsoft’s description of PowerShell, it says that it is an automation and configuration tool/framework. PowerShell was written to be a plain text language that is easy to pick up and get started with but also a very powerful tool that you can use to automate an untold number of tasks in your environment and daily life. However, I’m not here to sell you on PowerShell. The fact that you are reading this book shows you know what PowerShell is capable of. Instead, this book is designed to help you learn from my over a decade’s worth of experience in creating PowerShell-based automations and apply those lessons to your automation needs.PART 1
PowerShell automation.
Get started automating.
PART 2
Scheduling automation scripts.
Handling sensitive data.
PowerShell remote execution.
Making adaptable automations.
Working with SQL.
Cloud-based automation.
Working outside of PowerShell.
Automation coding best practices.