PowerShell Data as File System

PowerShell Data as File System

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  PowerShell Data AsFile System Ravikanth Chaganti Distinguished Member Technical Staff, Dell EMC Microsoft MVP
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  Agenda  What areProviders?  What is SHiPS?  Demo  Q & A
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  >_ whoami  DistinguishedMember Technical Staff @ Dell EMC  Microsoft MVP (CDM)  Published Author  Founder and Editor @ PowerShell Magazine  Twitter.com/Ravikanth  GitHub.com/rchaganti
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  Azure Cloud Shell
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  Providers in PowerShell Not a new concept! Existed since v1.  Provide a method to navigate and manipulate data from data stores through a common interface.  Not easy to develop a provider.
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  SHiPS History @beefarino created P2F 20142017 @powershell created SHiPS @powershell created Azure PS Drive & CIM Drive Thanks to @jianyunt for excellent work on SHiPS
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  SHiPS – GetStarted  Install-Module -Name SHiPSps://GitHub.com/PowerShell/SHiPS  Implements:  Get-Item  Get-ChildItem  Get-Content  Set-Content  No support yet for:  Get-ItemProperty  Set-Item  Set-ItemProperty
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  Demo SHiPS Providers
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  SHiPS – Writinga Provider  Requires  Knowledge of PowerShell classes!  Some level of structured data  Understand the data  Some thoughts on what / how you want to implement the provider  Let us look at EventLogDrive!
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  Demo Writing SHiPS-based Providers
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  Summary  SHiPS makesit easy to implement PS drives.  Identify data source and understand it.  Identify use cases and start with design.
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