This company offers a build automation system for .NET projects, providing cross-platform support and integration with CI/CD tools. Their system helps development teams standardize workflows to achieve consistent, reliable, and efficient software builds.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Development teams often struggle with inconsistent and unreliable software builds due to a lack of standardized workflows and the complexities of managing build processes across different platforms. Existing build systems can be verbose, difficult to debug, and lack proper IDE integration, hindering developer productivity.
Solution
NUKE is a .NET build automation system that enables DevOps teams to define and execute build processes using C# code, providing a more productive and maintainable alternative to traditional scripting languages. The system leverages .NET console applications to define build steps as regular C# properties, offering first-class IDE integration with features like code completion, navigation, refactoring, and debugging. NUKE also supports CI/CD integration by generating configuration files based on existing C# build definitions, allowing for parallelization of build steps across multiple agents.
Target Audience
NUKE is designed for DevOps teams and .NET developers who require a robust, scalable, and maintainable build automation system that integrates seamlessly with their existing development tools and CI/CD pipelines.
Features
- Build automation bootstrapped with simple .NET console applications
- Build steps defined as regular C# properties with no magic strings
- First-class IDE integration with code completion, navigation, refactoring, and debugging
- .NET global tool for setting up and executing build projects from the terminal
- Built-in attributes to generate CI/CD configuration files (YAML, etc.)
- Support for parallel execution of time-consuming build steps
- Integration with GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Azure Pipelines, GitLab, Bitbucket, Space Automation, Appveyor, and Jenkins
- Support extensions for Visual Studio, Rider, ReSharper, and VS Code