Using PowerShell automation, one could easily automate the most common tasks. The future for PowerShell as the automation framework is bright. Shipping PowerShell core on the hybrid platform has opened up new markets, new customers, and new opportunities for Microsoft. At the same time, we still strongly believe in Powershell on Windows Server, Linux and macOS as a great combination for automation.
Let us learn how Powershell is used as the automation toolset for all the Administrators, Developers, and Cloud engineers. Using PowerShell you will rediscover the new ways to automate Cloud tasks. PowerShell offering initially built only to manage the Windows platform. Later, PowerShell becomes the de-facto tool to manage On-Premise and Cloud infrastructures. Microsoft strategically brought an open-sourced version of PowerShell known as PowerShell core and made it available on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Now, it is a one-stop solution to manage cross-platform infrastructures.
Why is PowerShell so important?
PowerShell is a rich collection of libraries built on the .NET Core framework—you can automate practically every aspect of the cloud and on-premise infrastructure. Do you agree? Let us dissect the details.
.Net framework enables PowerShell with a fully-featured command-line shell. PowerShell interactive shell offers a variety of features that make cmdlets are so powerful and efficient command-line tools: command substitution, variable expansion, and more. PowerShell automation becomes a defacto tool to solve most of the infrastructure management.
Why PowerShell cmdlets so easy to use?
Due to its simple construct, we can use it in the way our mind thinks. In addition to traditional programs and operating system commands (CMD.exe), you can also use PowerShell cmdlets. The cmdlets can be created by anyone. The core Microsoft PowerShell team creates the core cmdlets, but many other teams and community-based enthusiasts or specialists are also involved in creating the hundreds of cmdlets that are bundled and shipped to the public repositories. The modules are the functions that take advantage of the facilities built into .Net framework namespace, and therefore are easy to build and write cmdlets. These cmdlets are the building blocks of Powershell automation.
PowerShell introduces a new type of powerful commands, known as cmdlets (pronounced “command-let”) which share a common Verb-Noun syntax. All cmdlets are named in a Verb-Noun pattern, such as Get-Process, Get-Content, Get-Help, Get-AzResourceGroup, Get-VcsUser, and Stop-Process. PowerShell automation can be leveraged to build workflows and apps that help you to build and manage cloud infrastructures.
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