> I'm not sure how to take the "lack imagination" bit, but I'll accept it.
No pun intended. I automated stuff in PowerShell more then decade almost every day, and there is no calming down visible. You could:
- Automate your dev/main Windows machine - control panel, installed apps, etc.
- Automate web stuff (check here for awesome sample [1])
- Create reports of various kinds
- Automate databases on various aspects - backups, seeders, metrics
- Whatever really... every day something else
> Why do you think moving away from MS at this time is bad? I'm curious.
Because MS is the best company today since it opened - bunch of x-platform tools - .NET, PowerShell, Secret management, VSCode, Terminal, WSL ... clearly light years away from MS during 90's or first 2 decade of 20's.
BTW, forgot C#. With .NET 5 this is probably one of the best programming languages and ecosystems around.
> I'm also hearing that things like Docker, Kubernetes, etc. are starting to wear thin with serverless objects being the new thing.
Hype or overkill for 99.9% of companies. Literary almost 0 companies need k8s. The complexity involved is not worth it on premise. Docker is more useful, but also requires a lot of involvement. I had big gov projects in all, and didn't see any benefit compared to projects not using them, contrary, yet another realm you need to handle.
As for serverless, I don't know what to make of it ATM.
[1]: https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/a14b1e5bfaf70839b338eb1ab7...
