Run a PowerShell Script on GitHub Actions

This GitHub Actions blog post will show how to run a PowerShell script on Windows and Linux runners.

PowerShell

With GitHub Actions Linux and Windows runners, we can run PowerShell 7 scripts natively.

In the following two examples, We run a PowerShell script that is available inside the repository.

Windows Runner

The code below shows how to run a PowerShell on a Windows-based runner machine.

Note: The script is running on Windows Server 2019. For Windows Server 2016, change run-on to windows-2016.

name: How to use a Windows Runner on GitHub Actions
on: push
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: windows-2019
    steps:
      - name: Check out repo        
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - run: |
          ./myscript.ps1

Linux Runner

To run the same script on a Linux based runner (Ubuntu), I will use the following code.

name: Run PowerShell Scripts 
on: push

jobs:
  build:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Check out repo        
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - run: |
          ./myscript.ps1
        shell: pwsh