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I'm working with a repository (A) that contains a different repo as a sub-module (B). The contents of repo B is used by the logic in A, and needs to be updated regularly.

I currently have an Azure build pipeline which is triggered whenever a push to A occurs. I've also made sure that the artifact created by the build contains data from B. This is defined in Yaml; in short:

I am trying to find a way to define a variable group at stage level and then access it in below jobs through a template? How would I go about doing this?

I am planning to experiment building a pipeline using Azure DevOps. One thing that I noticed early on is, after azure-pipelines.yml created, I have to commit this first before being able to run it. But I want to experiment on it which revolves around trial and error. Doing multiple commit just to test things out are not feasible.

In Jenkins I can just define my steps and try to run it without committing the file.
Is this also possible to do in Azure DevOps?

What I'm thinking about is to have a step in the pipeline to generate a full-blown pipeline to run afterwards.

Apparently this particular thing is not there yet (feature requests here, here). But maybe somebody has some fresh thoughts on workarounds?

I have a Azure DevOps (ADO) pipeline with a runtime variable or parameter called option. option can have values of build, test, ci, or cd. The pipeline immediately calls a template based on the value of option. Each of these templates then immediately calls another template, setup_tasks.yml. The setup_tasks.yml template immediately checks out the source code from Bitbucket cloud.

There's only one setup_tasks.yml. It's used by all four templates.

Contents of `azure-pipelines.yml':

I just created a pipeline using the YAML file and I am always getting the error "/_Azure-Pipelines/templates/webpart.yml: (Line: 41, Col: 27, Idx: 1058) - (Line: 41, Col: 60, Idx: 1091): While parsing a block mapping, did not find expected key.". I already verified the indentation of my YAML file and that looks fine.

Below is my YAML file.

I'm attempting to deploy an aks cluster and role assignment for the system assigned managed identity that is created via terraform but I'm getting a 403 response

Ultimately, I'm trying to do this:

• Move azure-pipelines.yaml and associated templates out of the code repository (code-repo).
• Move them into a separate dedicated repository (pipeline-repo).
• Have the pipeline look at the config for the pipeline in pipeline-repo, but run the pipeline on the code in the code-repo.

I'm referring the following documentation:

• Use other repositories: this one refers to "templates in other repositories," but I'm trying to remove any pipeline configs so the code-repo is just purely application code... and the Dockerfile.
• Define a repositories resource

For testing, I have this simple test.yaml:

I have a solution in .NET 5 with some Unit Tests in NUnit that required some secrets to work correctly. Testing in Visual Studio using local user secrets works fine but now I want to try to integrate using Azure Key Vault and run the Unit Tests inside a Pipeline.

I added the Task AzureKeyVault@2 and according to the log the secrets are downloaded just fine but in the next steps, the Unit Tests fail because it doesn't find some keys when try to access from IConfiguration.

This is my azure-pipelines.yml (only the relevant parts).