What is Cake

Cake is a free and open source cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for tasks such as compiling code, copying files and folders, running unit tests, compressing files and building NuGet packages.

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Why Use Cake

• Write your build scripts in pure C# in either a standard console project, using Cake Frosting, or as Cake script using Cake .NET Tool.
• Cake runs on dotnet and is available on Windows, Linux and macOS.
• There are extensions available to provide advanced features for most popular IDEs and editors.
• Cake is built to behave in the same way across multiple CI Systems i.e. Azure Pipelines, Github Actions, TeamCity or Jenkins.
• Cake supports the most common tools used during builds.
• Open source & community backed