#PowerShell Conference Asia 2018 #PSConfAsia
The PowerShell Conference Asia resumes for its 4th year this October, bringing speakers from Asia and around the world to deliver in-depth PowerShell and DevOps sessions. I am excited to be a part of this great event for another year and can’t wait to meet all my old friends and make a few new friends. I will be bringing over a few copies of my Pro PowerShell Desired State...
Configuring Azure environment to set up Azure SQL Database Managed Instance (preview)
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance (preview) is a new database service in Azure. This is a fully-managed latest version of SQL Server database engine hosted in Azure and managed by Azure and SQL Server teams. Azure SQL Managed Instance is your private database engine PaaS resource that is placed in your Azure VNet with assigned private IP from the range that you can choose. You...
#PSConfEU Agenda as a PowerShell Drive using #SHiPS
The SHiPS module has several use cases with structured data. I have written a few proof-of-concept modules using SHiPS to understand how it works and try out different design patterns. One of my sessions at PowerShell Conference EU 2018 is around using SHiPS. In the process of creating different demos for this session, I started implementing PS drives for several different things....
PowerShell Conference EU 2018
The US-based “PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit” sold out in record time this year, and the European “PowerShell Conference EU” (psconf.eu) is filling quickly. Both take place in April 2018. If they are new to you, then it’s probably because they are community-organized events, without a profit intention and with no huge marketing budget. While it’s too late for the...
Azure DevTest Labs Artifact for installing PowerShell Core
Unless you were living under a rock, PowerShell Core general availability isn’t any breaking news. PowerShell Core is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) automation and configuration tool/framework that works well with your existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data (e.g. JSON, CSV, XML, etc.), REST APIs, and object models. It includes a command-line...
PowerShell UserVoice: Add Support for NPM Type Version Specification in Module Manifest and #Requires
If you have ever used Node.js, the packages.json file is used to specify the module dependencies. Here is an example: JavaScript { "name": "MyNodeJSApp", "version": "1.0.0", "description": "First Node JS Application", "main": "index.js", "scripts": { "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1" }, "author": "Ravikanth...
#PSDSC Configuration Versioning in a Deployment Pipeline
When we talk about applications or software deployed in the infrastructure, we simply refer to the version of the application or software running in the infrastructure. At any point in time, we can look at the installed service or software and understand what version of that is currently running on the system. How about your node configurations? Does your node tell you what version...
Using NetworkAdapterProperty #PSDSC Resource to Configure Network Adapter Advanced Properties
At times we need to set the physical adapter advanced properties such as VLAN ID. This can be done using the Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty cmdlet. However, when using DSC-based configuration management, it makes sense to configure these advanced properties as well using DSC resource modules. Within the automation that I have been working on for automated deployments of Storage...
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Cisco UCS Custom Resource for the Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
The Cisco UCS PowerTool Suite is a set of PowerShell modules for Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco IMC (C-Series stand-alone servers) and Cisco UCS Central that helps in configuration and management…
#PSDSC Doing It Right – Configuration vs Orchestration
In the last part of this series, we looked at why resource granularity is important. In this part, we will see the difference between configuration items and orchestration steps. When…
#PSDSC Doing It Right – Resource Granularity
This is the first article in the #PSDSC Doing It Right series. This series of articles will introduce you to some of the best practices we have learned through some…
Working with binary files in PowerShell
This article is co-authored by Jan Egil Ring and Øyvind Kallstad. In this article, we will look at how binary files can be interpreted in PowerShell by looking at a…
Infrastructure Blueprints – An Easier and Better Way to Share #PSDSC Configurations
A while ago, I wrote an article to introduce Infrastructure Blueprints. Today’s post is about a more refined version of that project. These infrastructure blueprints are the starting point for…
PSRemotely – Framework to Enable Remote Operations Validation
Before we get started with what is PSRemotely, here is some background. As part of my work in an engineering team, I am tasked with writing scripts which will validate…
PowerShell Conference EU 2017 – Speakers and Sessions
Modern administrators are responsible for business-critical automation, influence IT architectural design, and are a crucial part of corporate security both in daily operations and in conceptual planning. PowerShell is the…
#PSTip Tab complete properties
Tab completion is a well-known feature in PowerShell, which speeds up the process of typing and reduces the risk for typing mistakes. The feature can autocomplete things like nouns and…
