As I’ve been building more AWS Lambda for PowerShell functions I’m wanting to automate testing and deployment with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, a CI/CD Pipeline. To do this one of the steps we’ll need to do is use the AWS Lambda PowerShell cmdlet New-AWSPowerShellLambdaPackage which will package up our script with all it’s dependencies into a zip file. I’ll want to run this on a build environment within AWS CodeBuild. Unfortunately there’s not a PowerShell specific runtime in CodeBuild yet. However, we can utilize the existing .NET 2.2 runtime provided and install PowerShell on it. With that we can run our PowerShell scripts on CodeBuild to build our functions artifacts.

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