Closing parentheses in string dropped when creating app service app setting via Azure cli

Question

I'm creating an Application Setting in an Azure App Service via the Azure cli. The value of the setting is a KeyVault reference which, if you're not familiar, has a special syntax:

@Microsoft.KeyVault(SecretUri=https://something.vault.azure.net/secrets/SomeKey/xxxxxxxxxx)

My powershell script creates the KeyVault secret and stores the secret id. I then construct the Application Setting value like:

$new_secret_id = "@Microsoft.KeyVault(SecretUri=$secret_id)"

I use Write-Host to verify $new_secret_id is exactly correct at this point.

Then I use the following command to create the Application Setting but the trailing paren is always missing and that causes the app setting to become a verbatim value instead of a KeyVault reference. If I hard-code a value instead of using the variable $secret_id it works, it does not strip the closing ).

az webapp config appsettings set `
    --resource-group $rg `
    --name $app_name `
    --settings A_SECRET=$new_secret_id

Update

I've been trying with various combinations of values for $secred_id. It only seems to happen when the value is a URL.

Does it work if you enclose your `--settings` parameter in double quote ? `--settings "A_SECRET=$new_secret_id"` instead of `--settings A_SECRET=$new_secret_id` — Sage Pourpre, Jan 02 '20 at 22:05
@Crowcoder What @SagePourpre said is right, we need to use ```''``` or ```""``` to warp the value. — Jim Xu, Jan 03 '20 at 01:05
@SagePourpre that made no difference. The `)` is still dropped. I also tried `A_SECRET="$new_secret_id"` — Crowcoder, Jan 03 '20 at 13:00

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 03 '20 at 14:11

This is already a documented problem (feature):

https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/8506

We made this change to help prevent the shell from interpreting the special characters in the setting value

As noted in the github comments, you can embed double quotes.

--settings "A_SECRET=""@Microsoft.KeyVault(SecretUri=$secret_id)"""

Closing parentheses in string dropped when creating app service app setting via Azure cli

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