Hi @Dhanavath Vishnu Greetings! We have update from the product team on the issue. Please find the response below.
The deployment manifest template that is provided is for the basic deployment and its schema is not applicable to layered deployment. The error is expected.
Having said that, the team has added layered deployment support for CICD tasks using the IoTEdgeDev tool. The product team will analyze if the layered deployment manifest template used by the tool can be used by Azure CI/CD tasks.
Please refer this link on GitHub which provides additional details on support for layered deployment.
Hope this helps! Please let us know if you have any additional questions or need further clarification on this. We would be glad to connect with you offline and answer any further questions you may on this.
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