Cake VS Invoke-Build

This is why 90-99% of our builds are done with Cake. It isolates all of it and you can run the build locally if you want.

A good starting point of you want to get started with Cake is our website at https://cakebuild.net/

I don't think it will get too much confusion, but there is a build system called Cake: https://cakebuild.net/

You may use other tools too: psake, make, cake, fake or any other *ake you are familiar with. I look at them as a tools that make build tasks behind simple commands and help me answer: How did I run that code again?

NAnt was quite a popular build tool used by projects of all sizes targeting .NET Framework on Windows. I have written many complex build systems using NAnt in the past. But XML based DSL was quite clunky to use and maintain. Besides, it was always a daunting task to explain to a new dev on the team. With .NET Core/.NET becoming a cross-platform framework, CAKE and FAKE gained a lot of adoption providing a C# and F# based DSL for build tasks accordingly.

Cake (C# Make) - simple, easy to set up, and with a lot of extensions scripting with C#.

I got the example and the answer I needed on this thread: https://github.com/cake-build/cake/discussions/3564

For those not familiar with it, Cake is a build automation system with a C#-based DSL. It is based on the concept of tasks, which are small units of work, like restoring packages, building, or testing, which can have dependencies on, or trigger, other tasks.

Just a note: there's already a very active community of the same name for the build utility Cake.

Looks interesting! Although the name clashes with Cake (C# Make) project which could be confusing - https://cakebuild.net/

I use pwsh on all platforms. All automation is done with it, and in many cases web app functionality depends on it running in background all the time (for large public services).

Even our GitLab runner uses pwsh.

To organizse build/scripts we use Invoke-Build, a cross-platform task runner: https://github.com/nightroman/Invoke-Build

Invoke-Build

So I need to take a step back and Start-DscConfiguration won't be my entry point to deployment. I need a .ps1 script that installs modules. Or, bear with me, I'll be using a PowerShell build tool: Invoke-Build.

I discovered the Invoke-Build build system, PSScriptAnalyzer for linting, and Pester for testing/mocking. I wrote a GitLab CI/CD pipeline that takes advantage of all of this to push releases to our company's PSRepo. I also discovered the Plaster template system for scaffolding new projects, and created a custom company template for standardizing our repo structures.