Creating your own provider

Creating your own provider can be a very useful (and fun) skill to learn as well. The PowerShell module SHiPS enables you to map any existing data structure in order to access it as a drive. At the moment, SHiPS only supports the Get-Item and Get-ChildItem cmdlets to retrieve data.

SHiPS is used, for example, with PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell (https://shell.azure.com), as well as with the popular lab automation module, AutomatedLab (https://github.com/automatedlab/automatedlab).

How to do it...

Install and start PowerShell Core and execute the following steps:

1. In order to be able to develop your own provider, you need to install SHiPS from the gallery first. Alternatively, you can follow the...