azure Pipeline help: Run az cli stmt and evaluate the response as part of an IF block

Question

I am creating an azure yaml pipeline and within an AzureClI@2 task I want to run the cli stmt 'az group exists...' with a local variable as the name and evaluate the statement's response, something like this:

 if ( az group exists -n $(dev-resource-group) = false)
 then
  # do something super cool here.
 elseif
  # do something less cool else.
 fi

There are lots of examples for variables but I'm unable to get this to work executing a cli stmt. I'm thinking that this needs to be runtime, so ${{ }} will probably be required. Any help here is appreciated!

Answer 1

I do agree with @Daniel Mann you need to use Script Type as Shell, Refer below:-

I tried the below code with if and else block in AzureCLI@2 to check if my resource group exist and it worked successfully like below:-

By setting the $y to true:-

trigger:
- main

pool:
  vmImage: ubuntu-latest

steps:
- task: AzureCLI@2
  inputs:
    azureSubscription: 'subscripption'
    scriptType: 'bash'
    scriptLocation: 'inlineScript'
    inlineScript: |
      x="rgname"
      y=$(az group exists --name $x --output json)
      
      if [ "$y" = "true" ]; then
          echo "Hello Rithwik Resource group exist"
      else
          echo "Hello Rithwik Resource group does not exist"
      fi

Output:-

By setting the $y to false:-

trigger:
- main

pool:
  vmImage: ubuntu-latest

steps:
- task: AzureCLI@2
  inputs:
    azureSubscription: 'subscription'
    scriptType: 'bash'
    scriptLocation: 'inlineScript'
    inlineScript: |
      x="rgname2"
      y=$(az group exists --name $x --output json)
      
      if [ "$y" = "false" ]; then
          echo "Hello Rithwik Resource group exist"
      else
          echo "Hello Rithwik Resource group does not exist"
      fi

Output:-