PowerShell in DevOps Workflows — GitHub Actions & CI/CD

PowerShell in DevOps Workflows — GitHub Actions & CI/CD

PowerShell’s evolution from a Windows-centric scripting language to a cross-platform automation powerhouse has firmly planted it in the heart of modern DevOps. Nowhere is this transformation more apparent than in the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines that drive reliable software delivery. GitHub Actions, with its ease of workflow automation and native integration with the world’s largest code hosting

Powerful AWS Bot for automation using Telegram Bot API written in PowerShell

Powerful AWS Bot for automation using Telegram Bot API written in PowerShell

Sometimes back I was working on a free notification system using Telegram Bot (https://telegram.org/blog/bot-revolution), and I wrote a simple function in PowerShell, which could be use in various ways for sending instant notification to any smartphone for free (http://bit.ly/2ys1gF5). I thought what else we could do with it, and I have got an idea to use it as AWS Automation

How to boot Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview with GUI (Server with Desktop Experience) from VHD

How to boot Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview with GUI (Server with Desktop Experience) from VHD

The reason behind writing this article is to use my Laptop (having Intel i3 4th Gen and 8 GB of RAM) as my LAB for testing new Windows Server 2016 TP4 and to do that I have to use boot from VHD option. There are multiple ways to boot your system from VHD but I don’t find a simple and

AWS EBS Snapshots Automation (Disaster Recovery) from Windows PowerShell

AWS EBS Snapshots Automation (Disaster Recovery) from Windows PowerShell

It is always a good idea to reduce hardware dependencies by moving your data to the cloud. Cloud is much more flexible than traditional hardware infrastructure including VMWare. But you still have to consider the ability of recovering data as and when required. This always helps you to keep your business running with minimal interruption. In AWS, there are several