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Cole McDonald

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• 11 min read

Learn Powershell in 5 Painless Steps – Decisions (If/Else, Switch, Function) – Step 5

DevOps = Developers + Operations. What if you’re in Operations and don’t have a developer at your disposal? That should never stop you from making your job easier and more efficient. Powershell is a scripting language from Microsoft that is already on your Windows PC and Servers and more recently, open sourced to the OSX and Linux communities. It ships with a great minimalist development environment (Powershell ISE). The problem I had is that all of the tutorials out there either assume a background in scripting and programming, or act as nothing more than command references.

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• 13 min read

Learn Powershell in 5 Painless Steps – Loops (Foreach, For, While) – Step 4

DevOps = Developers + Operations. What if you’re in Operations and don’t have a developer at your disposal? That should never stop you from making your job easier and more efficient. Powershell is a scripting language from Microsoft that is already on your Windows PC and Servers and more recently, open sourced to the OSX and Linux communities. It ships with a great minimalist development environment (Powershell ISE). The problem I had is that all of the tutorials out there either assume a background in scripting and programming, or act as nothing more than command references.

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• 13 min read

Learn Powershell in 5 Painless Steps – Input (Console, File, Applications) – Step 3

DevOps = Developers + Operations. What if you’re in Operations and don’t have a developer at your disposal? That should never stop you from making your job easier and more efficient. Powershell is a scripting language from Microsoft that is already on your Windows PC and Servers and more recently, open sourced to the OSX and Linux communities. It ships with a great minimalist development environment (Powershell ISE). The problem I had is that all of the tutorials out there either assume a background in scripting and programming, or act as nothing more than command references.

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• 13 min read

Learn Powershell in 5 Painless Steps – Output (Console, File, XML/CSV) – Step 2

DevOps = Developers + Operations. What if you’re in Operations and don’t have a developer at your disposal? That should never stop you from making your job easier and more efficient. Powershell is a scripting language from Microsoft that is already on your Windows PC and Servers and more recently, open sourced to the OSX and Linux communities. It ships with a great minimalist development environment (Powershell ISE). The problem I had is that all of the tutorials out there either assume a background in scripting and programming, or act as nothing more than command references.

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• 13 min read

Learn Powershell in 5 Painless Steps – Storage (Variables, Arrays, Hashtables) – Step 1

DevOps = Developers + Operations. What if you’re in Operations and don’t have a developer at your disposal? That should never stop you from making your job easier and more efficient. Powershell is a scripting language from Microsoft that is already on your Windows PC and Servers and more recently, open sourced to the OSX and Linux communities. It ships with a great minimalist development environment (Powershell ISE). The problem I had is that all of the tutorials out there either assume a background in scripting and programming, or act as nothing more than command references.

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• 3 min read

On to the Future with Powershell

When I started my 5 Painless Steps Powershell learning series. It was a smashing success. I was hoping a few dozen people would find it useful. It was viewed by over 2500 people in the first month. Yikes! The point of the series was specifically to bring more Ops to devops. Learning to program can be daunting and takes a dedication of time. The thing to realize, in my opinion, is that the 5 steps I presented can be applied and learned in any language.

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