I'm porting some Jenkins builds to Azure Pipelines. One of the port sets involves an arbitrary list of environment variables that constantly changes. In Jenkins I just run an injection script to run on a list file that is within the code base's source and the build references those variables in whatever scripts or build-steps need them. Some of the variables are hard-coded while others reference environment variables of the build itself.
I looked at the Define variables documentation but it either doesn't show a way to accomplish this, or I somehow missed it. How do I go about doing this besides resorting to something like Setx ? I have no way of knowing which build will use which variables so hard-coding them is pointless. The only constant is, I know to look for a root-level file called env-vars.txt.
There is an Azure Pipelines build Task module available on the VS Marketplace that can do this called Json to Variable, by Jeff Przylucki. I can either request the repo's devs to update their env-vars.txt into a JSON or run an existing tool to convert Key=Value pairs to JSONs.
Task that will read a JSON file present on your build agent, from a build or a release, and will Generate Build/Release Variables to be used in other steps.
Json to Variable: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=OneLuckiDev.json2variable