I was working on an Azure DevOps pipeline. I have a requirement to run some logic in the part of pipeline and decide what need to be run afterwards.
The scenario is I have a mono repo include all my manifests for multiple clusters. But they are all sharing 90% of the code. So I bring up all of them into one pipeline and use git to figure out which environment file has been changed, therefore decide to deploy into which environment.
I figured that when you set a variable by using the following, let’s say to make it universal then update the variable when running the pipeline. It didn’t work as expected.
<pre> variables: DEV: 'bla' - task: Bash@3 displayName: Test1 inputs: targetType: 'inline' script: | ${{ variables.NSPDEV }}="123" # This will not work since you dont have permission to modify the variable. </pre>Then I found there is a way to use a task to assign the variable and make it as output and use the output as the condition to trigger the pipeline.
echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=DEV;isOutput=true]deploy"
You just need to add the following condition to the task/job that you want to trigger and it should just work
condition: eq(dependencies.getEnvironment.outputs['gitdiff.DEV'], 'deploy')
