Publishing Powershell Nuget module to Azure DevOps

Publishing your powershell nuget module to your Azure DevOps Artifacts

Log into your Azure DevOps Project

Click Artifacts

Create Feed

Give it a name, visibility, and Scope

After your feed is created, click Connect to feed and click NuGet to get the package source (you can get this from any type). It'll look like this:

https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/ORG/PROJECT/_packaging/FEED/nuget/v3/index.json

Click on your settings icon and select Personal Access Tokens

Create a new token and give it at least 

• Work Items (Read)
• Packaging (Read & Write)

Save this token for later use.

Create a new working directory for your module

mkdir c:\mud

Go into this directory.

Create a new manifest file here.

New-ModuleManifest -Path .\mud.psd1

Create a new module root file.

New-item .\mud.psm1

Update the new manifest file with at least following

RootModule = 'mud.psm1'
ModuleVersion = '1.1.0'
FunctionsToExport = @('function1','function2')
FileList = @('file1.ps1','file2.ps1')

• Functions are list of functions that you want exposed from this module.
• Files are list of files that will be consumed by this module. These files must reside at the root of this folder. 

Create a nuget spec file using the name of your module (be sure you have downloaded nuget cli)

nuget spec mud

Go into this new file (mud.nuspec)

• Be sure the version matches (with mud.psd1)
• Be sure to update ProjectURL and IconURL or just remove it altogether
• Remove the default dependency

Package your module

nuget pack mud.nuspec

Add the source

nuget sources Add -Name "myfeed" -Source $source_push -username $username -password $pat

• source_push is your package source address from above
• username is probably your email address
• pat is your Personal Access Token you got earlier

Push this package

nuget push -Source "myfeed" -ApiKey AzureDevOpsServices .\mud.nupkg

That's it. Now you can browse, find, and install the above module. 

> Register-PSRepository -Name $repo_name -SourceLocation $source_repo -InstallationPolicy Trusted
> Get-PSRepository
> find-module -Repository $repo_name -credential $credsAzureDevopsServices
> Install-Module -Name $module_name -Repository $repo_name -credential $credsAzureDevopsServices