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

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.