A sketch for an automation engine that will run a script from a script library on multiple target computers.
Interfaces with a configuration database that holds target computer IP addresses and credentials.
Uses event-driven design for performance.
This project will form the basis of proprietary software. I will not be completing the implementation in the public domain.
This is starting with a very restrictive license. You can't do much with this until I've got my proprietary fork started. The reason is to prevent inadvertently granting rights to the proprietary product.
After that, I may look at attaching a copyleft license.
Reach out to me if you'd like to discuss.
- High-performance
- Only allows script from the library to be run
- Easy to develop script for the library
- Minimises platform-specific requirements
- Easy to debug script as it's running on target computers
- Returns alternate data streams
- Builds dependencies and transfers them to target computers
- Supports a CI/CD pipeline
- Attempts connection to target computers with WinRM
- Fails back to PSEXEC
- Supports target computers running Server 2008 RTM and PowerShell 2
Shout out to Jim Moyle (@JimMoyle), who helped enormously with his content on:
- Event-driven programming in PowerShell
- Debugging runspaces
Jim's YouTube channel is here