Chapter 3. Installing PowerShell Core and AWS Tools
Let's understand PowerShell and PowerShell Core. PowerShell has been around for use on Windows systems since 2006. It is known as a task automation and a configuration management framework, particularly known for Windows systems until now. PowerShell is built on .NET Framework. .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Windows. PowerShell Core is built on top of .NET Core. .NET Core is a cross-platform and open source managed software framework similar to .NET Framework. Going forward, PowerShell for Windows and PowerShell Core would be PowerShell. Presently, I feel these two terminologies are used because the community wants to identify the open source related effort for PowerShell as PowerShell Core. With the release of PowerShell 6.0, Microsoft has officially made PowerShell open source, providing the capability to access to Linux, macOS systems, and many more. Going forward, there would be slight change in the way...