The shell

The shell field allows you to specify the shell to run the job. The default shell is platform dependent. On Windows, the default shell is powershell and on Linux, the default shell is bash.

Supported shells

• bash
• powershell
• pwsh
• docker
• ssh

Usage

You can use different shells on different platform. For example, you can also use bash on Windows (via WSL) or pwsh on Linux, when you have installed the necessary shell on your system.

Examples

Bash

You can run a job script with the bash shell on linux and windows if you have installed the WSL.

job:
  shell:
    type: bash
  script:
    - echo "Hello, world!"

Powershell / pwsh

You can run this on Windows. On Linux you can only run the job2 with pwsh installed.

job1:
  shell:
    type: powershell
  script:
    - echo "Hello, world!"

job2:
  shell:
    type: pwsh
  script:
    - echo "Hello, world!"

Docker

You can run a script with the docker shell type and a specific image on linux and windows if you have docker installed.

job:
  shell:
    type: docker
    image: debian
  script:
    - echo "Hello from docker container!"

SSH

You can run a job script with the ssh shell type on Linux and Windows if you have the SSH client installed. This runs the script on a remote server.

Note

impulsar only supports passwordless SSH connections via ssh-agent.

job:
  shell:
    type: ssh
    server: user@example.net:22
  script:
    - echo "Hello from remote server!"