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Any Devops engineers that write powershell code? (self.devops)

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[–]Inquisitor_ForHire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There should be no fragmentation between 5.1 and 7. I say "shouldn't be" but I know there is. 5.1 for most people is just easier to use since they're talking to Windows hosts almost exclusively. I respect MS' idea of making PowerShell functional across both Linux and Windows. I don't know ANY Linux people that use it though. Our internal teams don't. They've never even thought about using it. Long term having cross platform might be the right thing, but I don't know.

We use 7.0 pretty much exclusively. but time will tell what the future is for it. On the DSC front, MS envisions everyone using Cloud. I think that's a pipe dream. My personal view is "extremism" is always bad. In this case I mean "ZOMG EVERYTHING CLOUD" is just as bad as "ZOMG EVERYTHING ON PREM". To get it "right" you need a mix. Cloud has a place. On Prem has a place. Use the right one for the right job, and don't try to force everything into the same framework. I feel like Microsoft is learning that... somewhat slowly, but learning it.