2022 MVP2MVP Day - Cake

Code sample from 2022 MVP2MVP Day talk GitHub Actions DevOps Pipelines as code using C#

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What is Cake?

Cake is a free and open source cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for tasks such as compiling code, copying files and folders, running unit tests, compressing files and building NuGet packages.

• 🔀 Cross platform
  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
• 🔀 Cross environment
  • Local
  • OnPrem
  • Cloud
  • Container
• 🔀 Cross service
  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub Actions
  • AppVeyor
  • TeamCity
  • Bitbucket
  • Travis
  • etc.
• 🧾 Open source
• 🔨 Build orchestration framework
• 🪧 C# DSL / Console

Benefits

• ♾️ Improved DevOps feedback loop
• ♻️ Reuse patterns you know
• ☯️ Consistent experience
• 🚦Low Ceremony
• 🤩Joyful experience

Sample flow

graph TD
    code[(GitHub<br>Push / PR)]
    clean(Clean)
    restore(Restore)
    build(Build)
    test(Test)
    integration(Integration Test)
    pack(Pack)
    upload(Upload Artifact)

    code --> clean --> restore --> build --> test --> pack --> upload
    build --> integration --> pack

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