Pass variable group name from a variable value

Question

Greetings!!!

In my azure devops pipeline I would like to make the variable group name dynamic and would want to read the value from a variable defined.

.yaml

variables:

- group: my-variable-group

For instance I have the variable group name hard coded and would like to change it as below. Then I run into unexpected value error

variables:

- group: $(my-variable-group)

Thank you

Answer 1

@Raj D ,

Thankyou for using Microsoft Q&A platform and thanks for posting your query here.

I understand you want to know how to make variable groups dynamic while performing deployment using yaml file.

You could try defining variables with the following syntax and see if it helps:

variables:
  a: ${{ <expression> }}
  b: $[ <expression> ]

Kindly check if the following documentations help in your scenario:

• Use a variable group
• Writing Expressions

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