PowerShell Modules

How to build a CI pipeline for PowerShell modules in Azure DevOps

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In this post we will do a complete walkthrough for configuring a new continuous integration (CI) pipeline that builds PowerShell modules in Azure DevOps Pipelines. Formalizing your PowerShell build steps into a CI pipeline helps enforce code quality standards and setup a fully automated process for publishing.

I have covered some of these pieces individually in other posts; for example my module starter kit and linting configurations. However a full post is helpful to tie all the pieces together in a detailed guide.

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Logging Azure Application Insights telemetry data from PowerShell

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Application Insights (AI) is the application performance management (APM) and logging platform for Microsoft Azure. They provide a client instrumentation library for several popular platforms/languages– but there isn’t any official module for PowerShell. In this post I share some new functions that demonstrate how to log telemetry data to AI from PowerShell.

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Tips for writing your first compiled binary PowerShell modules

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I recently completed work on a my first compiled binary PowerShell module– these are modules built with C#/.Net code instead of PowerShell code. A few module development basics like project setup, handling help files, and writing unit tests did take some work to figure out. In this article I provide some tips for how to handle these common scenarios to help you get started on new projects.

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PowerShell module starter kit – updated for 2019

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A couple years ago I wrote a PowerShell module starter kit (here). The goal was to provide an example for organizing a module using best practices and provide a live repository you could clone and play around with.

I’ve taken that starter kit module and updated it for 2019. Incorporating some new best practices and new usage patterns that I find helpful. Head over to the GitHub link to check it out!
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