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Everyday PowerShell for Developers on Linux, macOS, and Windows

By Robert Cain
This course will teach you how to use PowerShell and to help aid you with your everyday development task.
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Level
Intermediate
Updated
Dec 3, 2020
Duration
2h 59m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 1m
Introduction
Introduction 12m Course Overview 1m
Using PowerShell 7 to Create Test Environments
Examining the Web App to Test in Docker 7m Running Individual Tests with Docker 10m Bulk Testing with Docker 4m Installing Modules, Manually Logging into Azure 7m Automatically Logging into Azure 7m Creating a New Azure Resource Group 8m Creating a New Azure SQL Server 1m Creating a New Database 6m Loading Data 6m Validating Our Work 2m Cleaning Up 4m
Developing Your Own Classes and Modules
Introduction 5m Understanding the PSD and PSM Files 9m Using Import Module: Part 1 8m Using Import Module: Part 2 4m Using Using 1m Creating Documentation with PlatyPS 5m Fixing the PlatyPS Output 6m
Creating a Module to Generate Test Data
Data Fabricator Overview 11m Helper Functions 2m Design Pattern 1: Random Array Values 6m Design Pattern 2: Random Numbers 7m Design Pattern 3: The Combo 4m Fabricating Dates 3m Fabricating Name Records 5m Fabricating City State Postal Code Records 4m Fabricating Customers 4m Last Notes on Records 3m Documentation with PlatyPS 2m A Quick Introduction to Testing with Pester 12m
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Description
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Dec 3, 2020
Duration
2h 59m
Description

The goal of this course is to help you learn how to use PowerShell to augment your everyday activities, helping to automate your development tasks. In this course, Everyday PowerShell for Developers on Linux, macOS, and Windows, you'll learn how to use PowerShell to make your everyday life as a developer easier. First, you'll discover how to use existing PowerShell modules to create test / development environments in Azure. This will include creating servers, including databases. Next, you'll learn how to author your own modules. Finally, you'll use your knowledge to build a PowerShell module to automate another common developer task, generating realistic looking but fake test data. When you're finished with this course, you'll have learned new ways you can use PowerShell to aid in your everyday developer tasks.

About the author
Robert Cain
About the author

Robert C. Cain (arcanecode.com) is a Microsoft MVP, MCTS Certified in BI, and is the owner of Arcane Training and Consulting, LLC. He is also a course author for Pluralsight, team member at Linchpin People, and co-author of 4 books.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Course Overview
Hi everyone. My name is Robert Cain, and welcome to my course, Everyday PowerShell 7 for Developers on Linux, macOS, and Windows. I am the owner of Arcane Training and Consulting. In this course, we're going to see how to use PowerShell to make your everyday life as a developer easier. Some of the major topics that we'll cover include creating test environments with PowerShell using both Docker and Azure, seeing how to create your own classes and modules called web APIs, and authoring a working module to fabricate test data. By the end of this course, you'll learn new ways you can use PowerShell to aid you in your everyday developer tasks. Before beginning this course, you should be familiar with the PowerShell Core language, as well as developer concepts such as variables, loops, functions, and classes, I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn PowerShell with my course, Everyday PowerShell 7 for Developers on Linux, macOS, and Windows here, at Pluralsight.

Introduction
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