powershell@puppet.com

A lightning talk for the Portland PowerShell User Group about how I use PowerShell as a developer at Puppet

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1. powershell@puppet.com @glennsarti
2. Me • Senior Software Engineer at Puppet Specialising in Windows • 15 years in Desktop Engineering and IT Navy, Government, Mining, Finance, Corporate • DevOps advocate @glennsarti
3. 1. Simple developer tools Day to day helpful things 2. PS Module for VM Pooler Using the VM Pooler API and a WPF GUI 3. The Powershell Module for Puppet A story of next level shenanigans @glennsarti
4. Simple developer tools @glennsarti
5. Demo time? @glennsarti
6. PS Module for VM Pooler @glennsarti
7. What is VM Pooler? “Provide configurable 'pools' of instantly available (running) virtual machines” @glennsarti
8. @glennsarti
9. It has a REST API so … Invoke-RESTMethod time! @glennsarti
10. But where’s the demo?
11. The Powershell Module for Puppet … @glennsarti
12. … Next level shenanigans @glennsarti
13. exec { 'rename-guest': command => '… <powershell> …', onlyif => '… <powershell> …', provider => powershell, } @glennsarti
14. v1.0.6 @glennsarti
15. @glennsarti EXEC powershell.exe powershell.exe powershell.exe powershell.exe EXEC
16. v2.0.0 @glennsarti
17. @glennsarti EXEC powershell.exe EXEC RS+ RS+ RS+ RS+
18. Benefits @glennsarti
19. v2.0.2 @glennsarti
20. @glennsarti EXEC powershell.exe (+) EXEC RS RS RS RS
21. Benefits @glennsarti
22. … and then on the 4th August @glennsarti
23. (MODULES-3690) Powershell module hangs on latest Powershell (5.1.14394.1000) @glennsarti
24. @glennsarti PowerShell GH Issue #2068 (Curly) PowerShell GH Issue #2071 (STDIN)
25. v2.0.4 (soon) @glennsarti
26. puppet @glennsarti EXEC powershell.exe (+) EXEC RS RS RS RS Named Pipes
27. Benefits @glennsarti
28. OMGWTFBBQLOL
29. https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-powershell @glennsarti http://glennsarti.github.io/ https://speakerdeck.com/glennsarti All images are copyright of their respective owners