Gitlab Pipeline using Azure image how to access variables?

Question

I have a very simple CI/CD pipeline in Gitlab that looks like this:

image: maven:3.3.9-jdk-8

variables:
  APP: "MyApp"

stages:
  - build

test_build:
  stage: build
  image: mcr.microsoft.com/azure-cli
  script:
    - echo $APP
    - $name='prefix' + $APP + 'suffix'
    - echo $name

When I run this pipeline, the first script line, echo $APP, correctly prints "MyApp". However the second line fails with the following:

/bin/bash: Line 121: 'prefix': command not found. 

My question is, how can I use pipeline variables inline azure cli commands?

Answer 1

This is an issue of Bash syntax: Replace the line starting with $name= to name="prefix $APP suffix"