How to pass more than 5000 characters as command to Azure CLI task?

Question

There is an Azure CLI v2 task in one of my Azure DevOps release pipelines. Its Script Type is set as Shell and Script Location is set as Inline Script. The script contains a large az container create command at the moment and it works fine. I need to update this Inline Script with some additional environment variables but when copy/pasting the command in it I get the below error:

This input does not support more than 5,000 characters. The pasted content has been clipped.

What is a workaround for this?

Answer 1

@Nabeel

I think in Azure Devops pipeline we can use the concept of variable group(s). For example , you can create a variable group for additional environment variables and use that variable names in the InlineScript !!

Syntax to use : If the variable name is test , in the script field you can refer it by $({nameofvariablegroupname.test})

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/library/variable-groups?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml

see the usage here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/process/variables?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml%2Cbatch

One more alternative:-

Use script Type: FilePath , give the path to the script file

Regards,

Shiva.