What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to PowerShell Core, serves as an introduction and covers the very first steps with PowerShell Core.

Chapter 2, Reading and Writing Output, covers how to work with data and providers.

Chapter 3, Working with Objects, is an introduction to object-oriented programming and also shows you the benefits of using objects in your code.

Chapter 4, Mastering the Pipeline, is all about the pipeline and shows you how to work efficiently with large amounts of data in the pipeline.

Chapter 5, Importing, Using, and Exporting Data, is all about persisting and reading data from XML to JSON, and from REST to SQL.

Chapter 6, Windows and Linux Administration, compares different typical administrative tasks on Linux and Windows and demonstrates the benefits of PowerShell Core in these scenarios.

Chapter 7, Windows Server Administration, covers the pitfalls and the benefits of using PowerShell Core in a purely Windows environment. You will configure S2D, Docker, Active Directory Domain Services, and more.

Chapter 8, Remoting and Just Enough Administration, introduces remote debugging, Just Enough Administration, and the common information model.

Chapter 9, Using PowerShell for Hyper-V and Azure Stack Management, concentrates on the private cloud and shows you how to manage Hyper-V, deploy Azure Stack, and maintain your infrastructure workloads with PowerShell Core.

Chapter 10, Using PowerShell with Azure and Google Cloud, gives you two public cloud providers and compares the typical workloads, including storage and compute.

Chapter 11, Accessing Web Services, is all about REST. This chapter will not only show you how different actual REST APIs are accessed; it will also have you create your own!

Chapter 12, High-Performance Scripting, covers all the important concepts concerning the performance of your scripts. You will learn about true parallelization, efficient filtering, and more.