dbatools VS Invoke-Build

Compare dbatools vs Invoke-Build and see what are their differences.

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dbatools Invoke-Build
5 4
2,329 613
1.1% -
9.2 7.0
12 days ago 13 days ago
PowerShell PowerShell
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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dbatools

Posts with mentions or reviews of dbatools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-28.

Invoke-Build

Posts with mentions or reviews of Invoke-Build. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-28.
  • Ask HN: Do You Prefer Powershell?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2023
    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

  • Github pipelines/actions for .net build/deployment workflow?
    2 projects | /r/github | 28 Nov 2022
    Invoke-Build
  • Achieving single command Infrastructure deployment using PowerShell DSC.
    10 projects | dev.to | 8 Apr 2022
    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.
  • Module workflow in VS Code?
    4 projects | /r/PowerShell | 15 Apr 2021
    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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dbatools and Invoke-Build you can also consider the following projects:

ansible.windows - Windows core collection for Ansible

Psake - A build automation tool written in PowerShell

PSWriteHTML - PSWriteHTML is PowerShell Module to generate beautiful HTML reports, pages, emails without any knowledge of HTML, CSS or JavaScript. To get started basics PowerShell knowledge is required.

Cake - :cake: Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.

aws-tools-for-powershell - The AWS Tools for PowerShell lets developers and administrators manage their AWS services from the PowerShell scripting environment.

NUKE - 🏗 The AKEless Build System for C#/.NET

SqlServerDsc - This module contains DSC resources for deployment and configuration of Microsoft SQL Server.

FAKE - FAKE - F# Make

vscode-powershell - Provides PowerShell language and debugging support for Visual Studio Code

Nake - Magic script-based C# task runner for .NET Core

PowerShellForGitHub - Microsoft PowerShell wrapper for GitHub API

CS Make - Sake Build