Basically yes. C# console apps can be run like any other linux cli application, provided the dotnet runtime or sdk is installed (~40mb vs ~150mb). If you installed the sdk, you can build/publish/pack projects for production. You can specify the input directory and output directory, so you can easily call something like this: "Process.Start("dotnet publish ~/code/app1/app1.sln --output ~/builds");". Since you can start a process from C#, I can also git clone and git checkout like this: "Process.Start($"git clone {repo path} {output}");" where Process.Start lives in the System.Diagnostics namespace. So I built my own tooling as Console Apps that call other things (since I dislike bash scripts, yaml files (insert ci dsl) - the c# compiler protects me against a whole bunch of things and their System.IO namespace is awesome when working with files/directories).
So I can clone it, build it, open tunnel somewhere, copy it, straight from c# (although I have to setup ssh keys everywhere when needed, I use some trickery with "ssh-copy-id" that comes with ssh to add keys to new servers). So far I have 3 tools: a builder, a server manager (for droplets) and a tool that makes backups, but I'm looking at wrapping borg in the future as it is waaay better than mine. Next I need to build a tiny api to call "git init --bare" for new repositories, as I have to run it manually at the moment to make new project repo's.
> I'm going to offer $15 for unlimited minutes per dedicated vCore/2GB RAM
Careful, don't get abused by the crypto community; there has been some more incidents lately where miners abuse CI systems.
