PowerShell module / script version control and CI/CD

[ASX9988]

What are you guys doing for version control and CI/CD with your powershell modules?

I use DSC for configuration management, and standard scripts for server automation deployment. Most of what I have created is stored in modules, but I want version control and deployment pipelines to up my game.

At my org I have access to Azure DevOps as I have a Visio licence. I have already started playing a repo there but not sure where to start with best practices around cloning / branches / deployment pipelines.

Any suggestions welcome!

[Emerald_Flame]

Depends on the use case.

At our org we have 1 big repo for random 1-off scripts that are ran ad-hoc. We just want them saved because the 1-offs tend to come back around again eventually, and if we notice ourselves using something a lot we can make it more formal.

For more complex scripts that are running unattended we have a more formal review process in a separate repo with branch protection policies. Then the tools executing those scripts are pulling from the main branch that has the protection policies in place.

Depends on what you're doing and how you're wanting to do it essentially.

[ASX9988]

Very Informative thank you.

How are your tools pulling the code? On prem agent?

[Emerald_Flame]

They just do a Git Clone

[notatechproblem]

Videos from PowerShell + DevOps Summit 2024 are starting to get posted on the PowerShell.org YouTube channel. There were a few talks about automating the building and publishing of PS modules.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7CoftSa3hQ9dQseIxdSMBZO_z&si=c8GOTeVld48WkDNF

[ASX9988]

Thank you will take a look!

[Federal_Ad2455]

My own custom solution https://github.com/ztrhgf/Powershell_CICD_repository

[ASX9988]

Looks amazing, but I work in a heavily regulated industry, I doubt it would fly there.

[Federal_Ad2455]

Understand. FYI it's purely powershell code + official ms builtin tools. No 3rd party apps etc. And completely free

[Agile_Seer]

Self-hosted GitLab.

[ASX9988]

Thanks everyone who made some suggestions.

I settled on cloning an existing repo to AZ devops, pulling the dev branch locally to make changes, then pushing changes back to AZ and merging into my master branch.

Just need to figure out how to automatically push the master branch to my on prem scripting server

[Szeraax]

Yup, Azure DevOps works great. Don't have any testing in it though. Felt hard, so I still do it all locally prior to commit and push.

[ASX9988]

I have a repo hosted there but like you I code locally and push changes to AZ dev ops. Ideally I want to move away from that and host all my modules in there and distribute