Practical Automation with PowerShell

12 Sharing scripts among a team

This chapter covers

• Using GitHub Gist to share scripts
• Creating a module to share with a team
• Using a GitHub repository to store and manage a module

How often have you spent time writing a script to perform a task, only to find out someone else on your team had already done something similar? If you are like me, the answer is more times than you can count. And this problem only continues to grow as things like working from home and bringing your own device become more prevalent. So, in this chapter, we will explore some ways that you can share scripts as a team.

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