Basic Introduction – PowerShell.
In the recent growth of the automation and DevOps era, PowerShell language needs no introduction as this scripting language is used by Windows, Non-Windows Operating system, cloud services, and many other third-party applications.
Beginners who don’t know much about PowerShell, it is more than a command-line shell, it is used for Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC), automate the Cloud environment, monitoring, automate and configuration of operating systems, automate and configuration of third party software like Vmware, HP iLO, Nutanix and so on.
Background:
PowerShell’s first version was introduced in 2006 by Microsoft on the Windows platform and its latest stable release is v7.0.3, as of writing this document. Below are the PowerShell versions.
You might have noticed that from Windows PowerShell version 1.0 to version 5.1 are written Windows PowerShell and later on Core PowerShell because the difference is from v1.0 to v5.1 are based on the .Net framework while v6.0 onward PowerShell architecture is .Net core and because of it, PowerShell Core is a cross-platform language.
Popularity:
The reason that PowerShell is growing its popularity because it has the advantage of the .Net framework. PowerShell is using Object-oriented architecture and because of its Pipeline structure, we can pass the output of the one cmdlet to the other cmdlet as an input.
In addition, PowerShell remoting is one of the main advantages for the Microsoft Windows Operating system that you can use the single server with administrator rights and manage the multiple remote computers like changing the configuration, pushing configuration, or updates or manage cloud services from a single system.
PowerShell also supports the incredible Help system. With the PowerShell inbuilt help, you can get the help related to commands and modules. Help system will help you to understand parameters, syntax and examples without going online if your help is up to date.
More you browse the blog, you will get more chance to learn about PowerShell’s Power and its simplicity. Let’s join the journey of the PowerShell with this blog.