Introduction

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Table of Contents

• • Editor’s Pick
  • Trending Github Repositories
  • Top Tweets
  • Top Reddit Posts
  • New on Youtube
  • Bestseller Books on Leanpub

Editors Pick

Here are some of the articles specially picked by me for your reading…

• [Article] Step-by-Step: Deploy Azure PowerShell Functions with GitHub Actions

  by @Ba4bes

  I have written posts before about creating an Azure DevOps pipeline for Azure functions and creating a GitHub Actions workflow for ARM templates. In this post, I want to give you a step by step guide on how you can deploy Azure PowerShell Functions with GitHub Actions.

  What will this post cover?

  GitHub Actions give you the option to create a CICD workflow that can deploy directly to Azure. The technology is actively developed and getting more and more options to work with.

  In this post, we will go through the process to deploy Azure PowerShell Functions with GitHub Actions. I think this will translate to other languages pretty well. The workflow will first deploy the function if it does not exist. After that, it will use the publish profile to deploy the PowerShell code in the repository to Azure. I have found some great resources that go into the depth of what happens which I will link on the way.

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• [Article] In-Depth Guide to Building a PowerShell Pipeline in Azure DevOps

  by @adbertram

  In this in-depth tutorial, you’re going to learn how PowerShell scripts work in AzDo pipelines creating a PowerShell pipeline. You’ll learn all about how to invoke code, saved scripts in your source control repositories, and also how to work with pipeline variables in scripts.

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• [Article] Introducing Bicep PowerShell Module

  by @StefanIvemo

  As you may know, I’m completely sold on Bicep, I absolutely love using it! Since a while back I use Bicep to create all my templates for Azure Deployments (as long the features I need is supported in Bicep) and I’m super excited for the upcoming release of v0.3 that will give us the missing piece of the puzzle, copy loops!

  Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time creating a bunch of Bicep modules that I re-use in my templates over and over again. When I’ve spent a couple of hours coding I usually end up with a folder containing multiple .bicep files that I need to compile running bicep build. But since bicep build doesn’t have a --all switch or support wildcard characters on Windows (on OSX/Linux you can run bicep build *.bicep), I started using a simple PowerShell function to compile all .bicep files in a folder instead of compiling them one by one. After a couple of days using the function, it escalated with more features and I decided to put together a PowerShell module that wraps Bicep CLI and share it with the community. And that’s how the Bicep PowerShell Module was born.

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• Getting started with Azure PowerShell
  

  
  A walkthrough of getting started with Azure PowerShell.For the sample file, I use see https://github.com/johnthebrit/RandomStuff/blob/master/PowerShellStuff/AzGettingStarted.ps1

  00:00 Introduction
  00:26 Interacting with Azure methods
  05:17 PowerShell tooling
  06:38 Azure PowerShell module evolution
  10:48 Installing PowerShell module
  18:02 Authentication
  28:56 Contexts
  35:15 Azure Cloud Shell
  39:39 Code in the cloud shell
  41:13 Doing stuff in PowerShell
  43:37 PowerShell pipeline usefulness
  45:30 Looking at different types of resource
  47:50 Resource graph with PowerShell
  49:28 Finding commands
  50:50 Close

  
  

Trending Github Repositories

Github repositories that are trending are a good way to find and contribute to some cool PowerShell projects! Following is the list of the top 10 trending PowerShell Github repositories.

Trending PowerShell Developers on Github

Following is the list of developers building some cool projects and tools in PowerShell on Github, and popular repositories in their profiles.

Top Tweets

If you are into tech then you can’t miss these PowerShell related popular tweets in last week, here is the list of the top most popular PowerShell tweets…

Top Reddit posts

PowerShell Reddit r/PowerShell is a vibrant community and you should be on board if you want to get onto the nerve of the PowerShell Community, here is a list of top Reddit posts from last week.

New on Youtube

Here are all the new PowerShell videos uploaded on youtube.com last week!

Bestseller Books on Leanpub.com

Here are the top 5 book titles which were trending as bestsellers under the PowerShell category!

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