PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook: Use PowerShell Core 6.x on Linux to automate complex, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks - Brossura

Jayaram, Prashanth; Iyer, Ram

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1789137233 ISBN 13: 9781789137231

Casa editrice: Packt Publishing, 2018

Riassunto

Over 150 recipes to leverage Microsoft's open source automation framework and command line shell

Key Features

• Work effectively on Windows, Linux, and macOS with PowerShell's object-oriented approach and capabilities
• Handle structured data seamlessly without the need for manual parsing
• Enhance your native Linux capabilities with PowerShell Core 6.1

Book Description

PowerShell Core, the open source, cross-platform that is based on the open source, cross-platform .NET Core, is not a shell that came out by accident; it was intentionally created to be versatile and easy to learn at the same time. PowerShell Core enables automation on systems ranging from the Raspberry Pi to the cloud.

PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook uses simple, real-world examples that teach you how to use PowerShell to effectively administer your environment. As you make your way through the book, you will cover interesting recipes on how PowerShell Core can be used to quickly automate complex, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks. In the concluding chapters, you will learn how to develop scripts to automate tasks that involve systems and enterprise management.

By the end of this book, you will have learned about the automation capabilities of PowerShell Core, including remote management using OpenSSH, cross-platform enterprise management, working with Docker containers, and managing SQL databases.

What you will learn

• Leverage the object model of the shell, which is based on .NET Core
• Administer computers locally as well as remotely using PowerShell over OpenSSH
• Get to grips with advanced concepts of PowerShell functions
• Use PowerShell for administration on the cloud
• Know the best practices pertaining to PowerShell scripts and functions
• Exploit the cross-platform capabilities of PowerShell to manage scheduled jobs, Docker containers and SQL Databases

Who this book is for

PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook is for you if you are a system administrator who wants to learn to control and automate a Linux environment with PowerShell Core 6.1. Basic knowledge of PowerShell scripting is necessary. It is assumed that you already understand how an operating system is structured and how to use the command-line interface to work with the operating system.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing PowerShell Core
2. Preparing for Administration using PowerShell
3. First Steps in Administration using PowerShell
4. Passing data through pipelines
5. Using Variables and Objects
6. Working with Strings
7. Flow Control using Branches and Loops
8. Performing Calculations
9. Using Arrays and Hash Tables
10. Handling Files and Directories
11. Building Scripts and Functions
12. Advanced Concepts of Functions
13. Debugging and Error Handling
14. Enterprise Administration using PowerShell
15. PowerShell and Cloud Operations
16. Using PowerShell for SQL Database Management
17. Using PowerShell with Docker

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Packt Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1789137233
• ISBN 13: 9781789137231
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 566
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile