Powershell Task

[dhruvchand]

Run a linked powershell script as a Dev Box customization task

Describe the solution you'd like
As a user, I should be able to:

• Specify a single line or multi-line powershell script "inline"
• This will only run during provisioning (and not at login)

Sample usage:

setupTasks:

  - task: powershell
    inputs:
      command: "Run-Powershell var1 var2"

[xnkevinnguyen]

I'm assuming we expect the powershell scripts to be stored in the same catalog as the devboxyaml, hence a different catalog than our sample task repo

[dhruvchand]

@xnkevinnguyen @DavidObando the one caveat here is: do we really need to specify a "RunDuring" here, if we could just have a higher level devbox.yaml construct?

[dhruvchand]

this can be an escape hatch command. While we wait for customer feedback on how to structure a devbox.yaml in a way to infer when something ought to run

Notes from v-team meeting:

when you attach catalog and press sync - we search for devboxyaml and task yaml. these files are ingested. for each task, we cache the folder where we found the said task. (these go to storage account).

feedback:

1. runAs: this term in windows means something different. We should find a different term to annotate whether something runs during provisioning, or after login.
2. is there a valid scenario to run something as an admin after login? RunDuring? Lets not do this on each task, try and simplify it.
3. direct command itself (no file)
4. you can't interleave stuff b/w provisioning and login

[xnkevinnguyen]

Ok, then we can go ahead and start with the solution mentioned above.