About

[Blog]

Invoke-Automation is a personal blog maintained by Justin Sider. It primarily will focus on Powershell, and IT Automation. The goal of the blog is to provide insights and lessons learned during the automation of core IT tasks.

[Author]

Justin Sider currently acts as Chief Information Officer, Team Supervisor for Belay Technologies, and as a subject matter expert for a Federal government customer. Mr. Sider has over 15 years of professional experience as owner of his own technology business and performing in lead roles for various technology companies. Mr. Sider leads the development and implementation of an innovative tool  utilizing virtualization for an automated provisioning and testing solution and launched an Open Source version.

Golf, I love Golf. If you are in the Maryland area and want to play a round, let me know and I will clear my calendar!

[Notice]

The views and opinions expressed on this blog are my own and does not reflect the views and opinions of my current or former employers.

[Contact]

Twitter – @jpsider

GitHub – jpsider

Belay Technologies – Company Website

VMTN – jpsider

PowerShell Gallery – jpsider

Docker Hub – jpsider

Technet – jpsider

LeanPub – jpsider

[Publications]

The PowerShell Conference Book Volume 3 – Contain Yourself – Long-Running PowerShell Scripts in Containers

The PowerShell Conference Book Volume 2 – ReportCardPS Building HTML reports with PowerCLI and VMware Clarity

The PowerShell Conference Book Volume 1 – Building Secure RESTful Endpoints with PowerShell

  • Purchase the paperback version on Amazon!

[Media]

VMware [Code] Connect Conference 2021

Loop, Swoop and Pull – PowerCLI will be as Easy as Tying Your Shoes!

VMware [Code] Connect Conference 2020

Building and Deploying PowerCLI Containers to vSphere Integrated Containers

VMworld2019

vBrownBag TechTalk:

ReportCardPS – Create Pretty Reports using PowerCLI and VMware Clarity

VMworld2018:

vBrownBag TechTalk:

Getting Started with GitHub for PowerCLI users

VMwareCode PowerSessions:

PowerCLI Lint

PowerRestCLI – A Community Module


PowerShell Summit 2018:

Building PowerShell Applications that Operate on a Planetary Scale


vBrownbag VMworld2017:

XesterUI – A User Interface for Vester (vSphere Configuration Mgmt)

PowerCLI Administration with a Windows Docker Image:

Automated Testing with NSX:

VMTN PodCast #399 (8/9/2017):

http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/audioPop.jsp?episodeId=1199096&cmd=apop


vBrownbag VMworld2016 :

Automated IAAS Testing:

TestDriven Infrastructure as a Service: