Cloud-init – Part 2 – Advanced Ubuntu

In Cloud-init – Part 1 – The Basics, we laid the groundwork for using cloud-init in a vSphere environment. In this post we will go into more advanced Ubuntu setups. This includes deploying PowerShell, v6 and v7, using repositories and if needed, a GUI with Visual Studio Code.

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Visual Studio Code and PowerCLI

In a blog post on November 16th 2015 Microsoft announced PowerShell support in Visual Studio Code. And as it befits the “new” Microsoft, this PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code (VSC) was placed on GitHub.

VSC offers features that are currently not present in the PowerShell ISE, one of the more important ones for now being Git support. And another, not negligible feature, VSC is a free product. On the VMware{code} powercli Slack channel, which you should check out, the new editor was discussed briefly.

PCLI-and-VSC

With the 0.6.0 release of PowerShell for VS@Code, a couple of important new features were introduced. For the PowerCLI users, the addition of a VSC specific ‘profile‘, makes editing your PowerCLI scripts in VSC a lot easier. Want to try it out, read on!

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