PowerShell

A cross-platform task automation engine consisting of a command-line shell, a scripting language, and a configuration management framework.

PowerShell 7.4 leverages .NET 8.0 to provide a high-performance environment for managing local systems and cloud-scale Azure environments. It replaces legacy Windows PowerShell 5.1 with a cross-platform engine (pwsh) that processes structured objects instead of raw text strings. Operators utilize cmdlets: Get-Service and Invoke-RestMethod allow for direct piping of data into downstream commands without complex regex parsing. With native support for JSON, CSV, and XML, it serves as the backbone for Desired State Configuration (DSC) and modern CI/CD automation.

https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/