Cake.Powershell

Cake-Build addin that extends Cake with Powershell commands

Table of contents

1. Implemented functionality
2. Referencing
3. Usage
4. Example
5. TroubleShooting
6. Plays well with
7. License
8. Share the love

Implemented functionality

• Local / remote scripts
• Script files
• Download and run remote script file
• Script parameters
• Outputting to the cake console

Referencing

Cake.Powershell is available as a nuget package from the package manager console:

Install-Package Cake.Powershell

or directly in your build script via a cake addin directive:

#addin "Cake.Powershell"

Usage

#addin "Cake.Powershell"

Task("Powershell-Script")
    .Description("Run an example powershell command with parameters")
    .Does(() =>
{
    StartPowershellScript("Write-Host", args =>
        {
            args.AppendQuoted("Testing...");
        });
});

Task("Powershell-Script-Settings")
    .Description("Run an example powershell command with settings and parameters")
    .Does(() =>
{
    StartPowershellScript("Get-Process", new PowershellSettings()
        .SetFormatOutput()
        .SetLogOutput()
        .WithArguments(args =>
        {
            args.AppendQuoted("svchost");
        }));
});


Task("Powershell-File")
    .Description("Run an example powershell script file with parameters")
    .Does(() =>
{
    StartPowershellFile("../Scripts/Install.ps1", args =>
        {
            args.Append("Username", "admin")
                .AppendSecret("Password", "pass1");
        });
});

Task("Powershell-File-Settings")
    .Description("Run an example powershell script file with settings and parameters")
    .Does(() =>
{
    StartPowershellFile("../Scripts/sql.ps1", new PowershellSettings()
        .WithModule("sqlps")
        .WithArguments(args =>
        {
            args.Append("Username", "admin")
                .AppendSecret("Password", "pass1");
        }));
});


Task("Powershell-Remote-Script")
    .Description("Run an example powershell command remotely")
    .Does(() =>
{
    StartPowershellScript("Get-Services", new PowershellSettings()
    {
        ComputerName = "remote-location",
        Username = "admin",
        Password = "pass1",

        FormatOutput = true,
        LogOutput = true
    });
});

Task("Powershell-Remote-File")
    .Description("Run an example powershell file remotely")
    .Does(() =>
{
    StartPowershellFile("C:/Scripts/sql.ps1", new PowershellSettings()
        {
            ComputerName = "remote-location",
            Username = "admin",
            Password = "pass1",

            FormatOutput = true,
            LogOutput = true
        }.WithArguments(args =>
        {
            args.Append("task", "do-what-i-say");
        }));
});



Task("Powershell-Download")
    .Description("Run an example powershell script file after downloading its contents to a local directory")
    .Does(() =>
{
    StartPowershellDownload("https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1", "C:/Temp/install.ps1", new PowershellSettings());
});

RunTarget("Powershell-Script");

Example

A complete Cake example can be found here.

TroubleShooting

• Please be aware of the breaking changes that occurred with the release of Cake v0.22.0, you will need to upgrade Cake in order to use Cake.Powershell v0.4.0 or above.

A few pointers for correctly enabling powershell scripting can be found here.

Plays well with

If your looking for a way to trigger cake tasks based on windows events or at scheduled intervals then check out CakeBoss.

License

Copyright (c) 2015 - 2016 Phillip Sharpe

Cake.Powershell is provided as-is under the MIT license. For more information see LICENSE.

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