PlasterTemplate

Personal Plaster templates

How to use

Import the module and then run the only function in the module New-PlasterModule

There are 3 parameters:

ModuleName - This is the name of the module

OutPath - This is the folder in which to create your new module (do not include the ModuleName folder - this is added and created automatically)

TemplateName - This is a tab-completable parameter to choose the particular plaster template

Here is an example:

New-PlasterModule -ModuleName TestModule -OutPath C:\temp\ -TemplateName GitLab

You will then be prompted with the Plaster questions. Here's an example of some questions and responses:

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 | |_) | |/ _` / __| __/ _ \ '__|
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                                            v1.1.3
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Module author's name: Test Author
Module author's GitLab user account name: tauthor
Module author's GitLab email address: [email protected]
The URL of the GitLab server: https://gitlab.test.com
Name of your module: TestModule
Brief description on this module: Test module
Do you want to deploy to a custom repository or the PSGallery?
[C] Custom repository  [P] PSGallery  [?] Help (default is "C"): c
Enter the URL for the custom repository: http://proget.test.com
Do you want to deploy docs with mkDocs?
[No] Do not deploy docs with mkDocs [Yes] Deploy docs with mkDocs [?] Help (default is "No"): yes

If you choose to deploy docs with mkDocs, you will need to ensure that your GitLab-CI running has access to a Personal Access Token via a variable.

At this point it will create your module.

Following the module creation you will need to do the following steps:

1. Create the repository on the Git server using the module name specified
2. Add the PowerShell repository API key to your repository environment variables as the name NugetAPIKey
3. cd into the directory of your new module and run git push -u origin master to push the initial commit up to the Git server

To create a deployment you need to tag a commit with the release version and then push that tag to the git server. So, if you were deploying version 0.1.0 you would do the following:

git tag 0.1.0
git push origin 0.1.0