Invoke-Build: PowerShell in CI/CD
summary
Invoke-Build scripts run PowerShell build tasks that aim to make laptop and CI builds identical, using incremental inputs/outputs so net restore and net build skip when up to date. Evidence: about 1,800 GitHub results and over 1,000,000 gallery downloads. Workflow includes a bootstrapping step that installs Invoke-Build, a shared invoke-build-tasks repo for reusable tasks, GitVersion for deterministic assembly versions, and container options (Earthly / Docker BuildKit) for consistent cached builds — local no-op builds complete in about 69 ms.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:08CI/CD goals
- 5:54Why Invoke-Build
- 10:07Hello World script
- 18:41Cleaning build scripts
- 22:59Bootstrapping Invoke-Build
- 23:21Incremental builds
- 35:08Shared build tasks
- 37:55Standard build environments
- 47:08CI/CD alternatives
- 48:11Q&A
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