Ed-Fi PowerShell Automation

Owned by Stephen Fuqua
Last updated: Feb 17, 2022 by Eric Stockdale (Deactivated)

The Ed-Fi Alliance source code repositories for the ODS/API contain many PowerShell scripts that are useful for development and deployment of the ODS/API components. While the "Getting started" section introduces the initdev  command, it does not make clear what is going on under the hood - and what other functions are available. This page aims to correct that by documenting many of the most commonly-used functions.

Each module mentioned below is implicitly loaded when you run .\Initialize-PowerShellForDevelopment.ps1  from the Ed-Fi-ODS-Implementation  directory. Alternately, you can be load them into the current PowerShell context via Import-Module:

# "-Force" and "-Scope Global" are optional
# Assuming working directory is Ed-Fi-ODS-Implementation
Import-Module -Force -Scope Global scripts\NuGet\EdFi.RestApi.Datagbases\Deployment.psm1
Import-Module -Force -Scope Global Application\SolutionScripts\InitializeDevelopmentEnvironment.psm1

Review the top of InitializeDevelopmentEnvironment for more detailed Import-Module  examples that use the path-resolver to find modules.

Modules