22 Publishing your script

 

We hope that as you progress through this book, or shortly after that, you’ll develop a fantastic, well-crafted PowerShell tool that solves an immediate problem. It would be even more rewarding if it leads to a substantial raise for you. However, beyond personal gains, we hope you’ll consider sharing your creation with the broader PowerShell community. In recent years, this has become conveniently achievable through the PowerShell Gallery, which hosts thousands of modules and scripts.

22.1 The importance of publishing

Publishing your script offers several benefits. First, it’s a generous act, contributing positively to the broader PowerShell community. We want to express our gratitude in advance for your willingness to do so. Moreover, it’s an excellent means to share your tools with colleagues or yourself. You can publish your current version to the PowerShell Gallery (often called PSGallery) and install or update it as needed. If you have a new version, you can also effortlessly publish it. The beauty is that your older versions remain accessible, allowing you to test or reference them when necessary.

22.2 Exploring the PowerShell Gallery

22.3 Other publishing options

22.4 Before you publish

22.4.1 Are you reinventing the wheel?

22.4.2 Updating your manifest

22.4.3 Getting an API key

22.5 Ready, set, publish

22.5.1 Managing revisions

22.6 Publishing scripts

22.6.1 Using the Microsoft script repository

22.6.2 Creating ScriptFileInfo

22.6.3 Publishing the script

22.6.4 Managing published scripts

Summary