ADR-PS

A Powershell based command-line tool for working with Lightweight Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).

"Lightweight Architecture Decision Records is a technique for capturing important architectural decisions along with their context and consequences. We recommend storing these details in source control, instead of a wiki or website, as then they can provide a record that remains in sync with the code itself. - Thoughtworks"

Quick Start

adr-ps is a powershell module you can import in a normal powershell session. The default destination directory is doc/adr.

1. Open Powershell CLI and import module

   Import-Module .\adr.psd1

2. Create or open an ADR repository in the desired location (the current working directory is the default location). Once started, all ADR logs in this session will use this path. Run Start-AdrLog again with a new path to change the ADR log location for the session.

   Start-AdrLog -Path $repositoryPath

3. Create an architecture decision record.

   New-Adr -Title "My New Adr"

   Id Name       Status  Path
   -- ----       ------  ----
    4 My New Adr Unknown /Users/joel/repos/Github/adr-ps/doc/adr/0004-my-new-adr.md
   

4. List current ADRs

   Get-Adr

   Id Name                          Status   Path
   -- ----                          ------   ----
    1 Record Architecture Decisions Accepted /Users/joel/repos/Github/adr-ps/doc/adr/0001-record-architecture-decisions.md
    2 Implement As Powershell       Accepted /Users/joel/repos/Github/adr-ps/doc/adr/0002-implement-as-powershell.md
    3 Use Powershell Approved Verbs Accepted /Users/joel/repos/Github/adr-ps/doc/adr/0003-use-powershell-approved-verbs.md
    4 My New Adr                    Unknown  /Users/joel/repos/Github/adr-ps/doc/adr/0004-my-new-adr.md
   

5. Update ADR status

   Set-Adr -Id 4 -Status Rejected

   Id Name                          Status   Path
   -- ----                          ------   ----
    4 My New Adr                    Rejected /Users/joel/repos/Github/adr-ps/doc/adr/0004-my-new-adr.md
   

6. Help

   # Comment-based help available for all module functions
   Get-Help Start-AdrLog

Motivation

ADR-PS aims to help document architecturally significant functional and non-functional decisions through out solution lifetime to benefit current and future teams. I also hope to promote ADR-technique into greater audience with more choice of tools.

The decisions on this tool are recorded as architecture decision records in repository

References

• Documenting Architecture Decisions
• Lightweight ADRs