Invoke-Tasks

Powershell based task processing. You do not require another module. For detailed documentation please click documentation badge to get to github pages of this repository.

Feature summary

• Pure Powershell with a single script and no module/assembly dependency
• Running tasks in defined order
• Each task can have one dependency that runs first
• Capturing multiple output by defining named regexes written into a captured.json
• Tasks can be tagged allowing to filter for tasks
• Tasks can be skipped
• It's possible to define task libraries (file as well as folder)
• Scripts are checked to use API functions only.
• Invoke-Tasks output can be hidden
• Task data (hashtable) can be shared accross all tasks
• Performance output for each individual task
• Supporting analyse tasks for static code analysis based on Powershell AST

Quickstart

Simply define a tasks.ps1 with following content:

Register-Task -Name "Hello world!" {
    Write-Host 'hello world!'
}

When executing Invoke-Tasks the result looks like following (OS and Powershell version depend on your system):

Invoke-Tasks :: Running on OS Darwin 23.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 23.2.0: Wed Nov 15 21:53:18 PST 2023; root:xnu-10002.61.3~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000‚
Invoke-Tasks :: Running with Powershell in version 7.4.1
Invoke-Tasks ::   ... task data {}
Invoke-Tasks ::   ... 1 tasks found in 

Name DependsOn Skip  Parameters
---- --------- ----  ----------
Demo           False 

Invoke-Tasks :: Running task 'Demo'
hello world!
Invoke-Tasks ::  ... took 0,0088361 seconds!

Invoke-Task does look for a tasks.ps1 in current working directory. You also can use Invoke-Tasks -TaskFile demo.ps1 for specifying another path and filename.