How to use azure cli to change or update pre deployment conditions on azure pipelines?

Question

I am trying to find an example that can show how to use azure cli to update pre deployment conditions on a azure devops pipeline such as select/unselect one of the check boxes below

Answer 1

I don't believe the az devops extension supports the UI style pipelines and it likely won't, given that multi-stage-YAML-pipelines are the current future. The REST API for this change is pretty simple though and you can use powershell to fix this quite easily.

Sample in C#

string collectionUri = args[0];
string projectName = args[1];
string patToken = args[2];
int releaseId = int.Parse(args[3]);

VssConnection connection = new VssConnection(new Uri(collectionUri), new VssBasicCredential("username", patToken));
ReleaseHttpClient client = connection.GetClient<ReleaseHttpClient>();
var release = client.GetReleaseAsync(projectName, releaseId).Result;

var variableValue = new ConfigurationVariableValue();
variableValue.Value = "bar";
release.Variables.Add("foo", variableValue);

var updatedRelease = client.UpdateReleaseAsync(release, projectName, releaseId).Result;

And the open source vsteam tool has an option to get and update a Release Definition as well:

PS C:\> $b = Get-VSTeamReleaseDefinition -ProjectName Demo -Id 23 -Raw
PS C:\> $b.variables.subscriptionId.value = 'Some New Value'
PS C:\> $body = $b | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 100
PS C:\> Update-VSTeamReleaseDefinition -ProjectName Demo -ReleaseDefinition $body

To get the release ID, you can query all releases in a project. And a similar call exists to query all projects in a account.

 PS C:\> Get-VSTeamReleaseDefinition -ProjectName demo