For the longest time, the open source community had a concept called 'public package repositories.' Microsoft never had the same -- until the PowerShell Gallery.

The PowerShellGet module is the command (s) for discovering, installing, updating and publishing PowerShell artifacts like Modules, DSC Resources, Role Capabilities, and Scripts.

The same goes for module design. You should only write modules that essentially are smaller, more tightly-defined niches of the default PowerShell modules. For example, the ...

By default, earlier PowerShell versions use SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 to establish secure HTTPS connections to repositories. Once you have PowerShell updated and you run the Install-Module cmdlet to ...