chapter eighteen
Chapter 18. Creating PowerShell workflows
Workflows are an important new feature of PowerShell v3. They’re an incredibly rich, complex technology that we can’t possibly cover comprehensively in this chapter; they really deserve their own book. But they are a type of tool you can create and make great use of, so we wanted to include this chapter as an introduction to them.
Workflows are a type of PowerShell command, just as cmdlets and functions are types of commands. One of the easiest ways to understand workflows is to contrast them with their closest cousin: functions.