CHAPTER 6

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PowerShell for Deployment

PowerShell has become one of the most important tools for any successful deployment solution on the Microsoft stack today. In essence it’s a task automation and configuration framework. It’s a scripting language built on the .NET Framework so we get great integration with the platform, and it’s easy to extend using both C# as well as PowerShell itself.

This chapter is intended as a quick start into PowerShell to give you enough background to get started. We will focus on the aspects of PowerShell that you will use in the delivery pipeline; there will be many more examples in the coming chapters as well.

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