15PROVISIONING A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
PowerLab is a final, massive project using all the concepts you’ve learned and more. It’s a project that automates the provisioning of Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) all the way up to installing and configuring services including SQL and IIS. Imagine being able to run a single command such as New-PowerLabSqlServer, New-PowerLabIISServer, or even New-PowerLab, wait a few minutes, and have a fully configured machine (or machines) pop out. That’s what you’re going to get if you stick with me throughout the rest of the book.
The purpose of the PowerLab project is to remove all the repetitive, time-consuming tasks ...
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