Jeff Brown Tech

I've got a $100 gift card and 50% off any course or certification from @linuxfoundation.org to use. I've completed CKA/CKAD and am working on CKS. Any suggestions from the community? I'm primarily interested in courses, not necessarily certifications.

#kubernetes @cncf.bsky.social #linux

Jeff Brown Tech Career Chat: Keep Learning New Things

🎉 New YouTube Video 🎉

Working in IT requires learning new skills all the time. In this video, I reflect on the times learning something outside my current role paid off later.

I'm studying for the Certified #Kubernetes Security exam. What are your recommendations for study materials besides the Killer Shell course on YouTube?

#CKS

YouTube video by Jeff Brown Tech PowerShell Command Line to Scripting | Course Introduction

This week I posted the last video in the #PowerShell Command Line to Scripting mini-course.

If you've watched any of the videos, I'd love to hear your feedback if it helped you!

youtu.be/bYAAj1mqzDw?...

Jeff Brown Tech PowerShell Command Line to Scripting | Art of Scripting

📣 New YouTube Video 📣

🧠 Write better PowerShell scripts! This video covers learning how to plan your scripts with pseudocode and following best practices for clean, reliable code using naming conventions, formatting, comments, and more.

👀[Throwback Thursday]👀

Working on a project locally and need to move your Terraform state to an Azure storage account? Learn how in this tutorial!

Jeff Brown Tech PowerShell Command Line to Scripting | External Data

🔔 New YouTube Video 🔔

Learn how to work with external data in PowerShell! 💡 This module shows you how to read and write CSV, JSON, and XML files, import/export structured data, and call web APIs using `Invoke-RestMethod`. Perfect for real-world automation!

👀[Throwback Thursday]👀

Learn how to create and manage dynamic arrays inside PowerShell using this tutorial!

🔥[Throwback Thursday]🔥

Learn more about the different Azure high availability options from this tutorial!

Jeff Brown Tech PowerShell Command Line to Scripting | Error Handling

🚨 New YouTube Video 🚨

Take control of errors in PowerShell! ⚠️ This module covers try/catch/finally, ErrorAction, throw, and Get-Error to handle problems gracefully and keep your scripts running smoothly.

Jeff Brown Tech PowerShell Command Line to Scripting | Functions

💯 New YouTube Video 💯

Learn how to write reusable PowerShell functions! ➡️ This video covers function basics, parameters, return values, variable scope, adding help, and advanced function features like CmdletBinding. Perfect for beginners writing scripts.

☁️[Throwback Thursday]☁️

Learn how to use resource dependencies (correctly!) in Terraform with some Azure examples!

Jeff Brown Tech PowerShell: Command Line to Scripting | Parameters

⬇️ New YouTube Video ⬇️

Learn to make your PowerShell scripts more dynamic and reusable with parameters! 🚀 We'll cover defining parameters, setting data types, and validation—then wrap up with a fun refactoring challenge.

💯[Throwback Thursday]💯

Did you know you can configure Terraform to deploy to multiple Azure subscriptions? Learn how in this tutorial!

👀[Throwback Thursday]👀

YouTube video by Jeff Brown Tech PowerShell: Command Line to Scripting | Logic and Loops

Build on your PowerShell scripting skills by learning how to make decisions in your code. In this video, we’ll cover if statements, for and while loops, and switch statements. Then, put everything into practice by building a fun number guessing game from scratch.

youtu.be/zphDREshbYk

🔥[Throwback Thursday]🔥

Jeff Brown Tech Tutorial videos covering PowerShell, Azure, DevOps, Office 365 and more!

Last year I decided to dive into developing my YouTube channel. Today I hit 1,000 subscribers! Pretty exciting. I focus on a lot of PowerShell, but moving forward I am focusing on Azure and other cloud-related technologies.

www.youtube.com/@jeffbrowntech

#powershell #azure #youtube #cloud

Jeff Brown Tech PowerShell: Command Line to Scripting | Variables & Data Types

⭐ New YouTube Video ⭐

This first module covers variables, data types, operators, and methods. The module concludes with your first challenges in writing a sentence analyzer script and a temperature converter.

Jeff Brown Tech PowerShell: Command Line to Scripting | Course Introduction

🚨 New YouTube Video 🚨

Want to learn PowerShell scripting but don't know where to start? This video series is for you! This first video is an overview of the course topics and how to set up your local system to follow along with the content.

☁️[Throwback Thursday]☁️

Make your PowerShell functions easier to use by adding tab and argument completions in this ultimate guide!

🔔[Throwback Thursday]🔔

Learn how to programmatically deploy Teams templates using the Graph API.

* Plan 2

We're thinking the same thoughts today:

bsky.app/profile/jeff...

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I'm one part interested in this but also one part irritated because Notepad is supposed to be a simple text editor (old man rant)

Me: I like to keep my desktop clean and icon free.
Random app update: adds shortcut back to desktop

Rude 🤬

💯[Throwback Thursday]💯

Terraform for_each is a powershell meta argument, but if you set up the for_each or your variable wrong, it can lead to indexing issues. Find out more in this article!

I question why searching history needs an AI component...

I hate nothing more than getting a calendar invite for someone else's out of office.

“No disassemble!”