Prashanth Jayaram - PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook: Use PowerShell Core 6.x on Linux to automate complex, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks

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Prashanth Jayaram is a product design and automation expert in database technology with 12 years of rich, extensive, hands-on experience in designing database solutions with next-gen database technologies. He was awarded as the second-best SQL author of 2017 for his contribution to the SQL Server technology space. He has written over 200 articles about SQL, NoSQL, PowerShell, Python, SQL on Linux, SQL on Azure, and SQL on AWS.

Ram Iyer is an automation and application performance management specialist with about eight years of experience in enterprise IT. While ensuring that the environment in his enterprise performs optimally is his primary role, he is passionate about automation using PowerShell, and has contributed to over 60 enterprise-grade automation solutions in Windows, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft System Center, Citrix XenApp, VMware PowerCLI, and Microsoft Azure, using PowerShell. He gives back to the community by conducting training sessions in PowerShell and blogging about administration using PowerShell.

Cathal Mullane has worked in the build, release and DevOps area for the past four years. After graduating from Limerick Institute of Technology with a first class honors degree in software development, he began to work with Hewlett Packard. In 2016, he joined Fleetmatics (now Verizon Connect) as a build engineer. His main duties were the building, packaging, and deployment of the platform components to all the environments. He was involved in introducing new continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines that were used to break up the existing monolith solution into small components that could be deployed at any time. This was achieved using PowerShell scripts along with tools from the Atlassian Stack and Octopus Deploy.

Jose Angel Muoz is a systems engineer with more than 20 years of experience in Linux and Windows systems administration. He is currently working for RAET, where he has discovered the magic of automation and infrastructure as code. Jose Angel is also collaborating with the Ansible, creating new Python and PowerShell modules.

Jose Angel use to collaborate with the Linux Magazine, where he published several technical articles about different topics such as monitoring, security, virtualization, or development.

Mohit Goyal is a budding technical expert with 10 years of experience as an IT professional. He has worked on varied range of technologies, chiefly in infrastructure services and automation, from cloud-based to on-premises systems. He has a knack for maximizing the potential of product teams and automating software delivery processes. He currently works at Johnson Controls, Inc. as a Senior DevOps engineer. He has been involved in the DevOps and PowerShell community and also maintains a popular blog where he contributes posts related to his research and everyday technical realizations.

Vic Perdana has over 13 years of experience with broad knowledge and consulting skills in cloud technology, DevOps, and automation. He has lead teams and managed large-scale application and infrastructure deployment projects, specifically to do with hybrid-infrastructure migration. Vic's current focus is on the development, implementation, and architecture of Azure solutions, resolving a broad range of business and technical challenges faced by many customers.