Taskfile: a modern alternative to Makefile

Ep #5: Explore Taskfile, a modern alternative to Makefile, for efficient task automation and enhanced developer productivity in dynamic cloud environments.

Automate all the things

Introduction

I meant to write this post for a while now, but I never thought many people would read it. I'm writing it now for those few people brave enough to try something new around automation tools.

After being unhappy with Makefile for years now, last year I decided that I had enough and I started looking around for alternatives. None of the projects I found seemed to fit my needs until I discovered Taskfile. After using it successfully for the past year, I'm happy to say that I found a better way to write automation scripts than Makefile and I'm not going back.

In this post, I would like to introduce Taskfile and a few other tools that combined make a nice automation framework. My intention is not for this post to be an exhaustive guide to those tools. People can read the official documentation if they are interested.

I just want to introduce some basic features that I use every day and maybe spark the reader's curiosity. Just use 20% of those tools' features to reap 80% of the benefits. Thanks, Pareto for your principle.

This is just my first post on this topic. I'm planning to write soon a more in-depth one where I describe my current use cases.

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Giuseppe Santoro

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