PowerShell

PowerShell is a commandline user interface for Windows that is often used as part of a Python programmer's development environment.

PowerShell resources

• A Python Developer's Guide to Powershell explains the PowerShell scripting language then shows how to combine a Python script and a PowerShell script to automate web scrapining downloads.

• ChatOps with PowerShell covers how to use the Python-based chatbot named ErrBot. It also presents example code to connect ErrBot to applications you are running.

• PowerShell in Azure Functions shows how to use PowerShell code in Azure serverless Functions.

• Getting Started with Windows PowerShell is a guide for your first steps with PowerShell.

• Windows Command-Line: Backgrounder and Windows Command-Line: The Evolution of the Windows Command-Line give historical perspective on how the Windows shell has evolved from MS-DOS days into the current Windows 10 world.

• Learning a New REST API with PowerShell covers how to create the common GET, POST, PUT and DELETE requests that are used to work with RESTful APIs. The the tutorial also contains some tips and tricks for reading API documentation and how to use PowerShell more effectively in these situations.

• PowerShell in Azure Functions shows you how to use PowerShell scripting language code in your Azure Functions. The language is only in experimental mode on Azure Functions but could be useful if you have a bunch of existing scripts that you want to use on the serverless platform.

• PowerShell Core support in AWS Lambda is an announcement post that PowerShell can be used in AWS Lambda Functions along with how to get started.

• PowerShellBuild provides common reusable tasks for building PowerShell modules.

• Invoke-Build is a build automation tool. There is also extensive documentation on their wiki.

• Two months with Powershell on a UNIX examines one developer's experience using PowerShell not on Windows but on a *nix operating system. The author covers the advantages and disadvantages he found during his experience and some of the bugs he hopes are fixed in PowerShell 7.