How to specify dynamic value as environment name for virtual machine resource in yaml pipelines

Question

We are planning to move our release pipelines to yaml and we are ready with it.

I have multiple environments like dev, test and prod where I'm trying to use same deployment job templates for all environments.

jobs:
- deployment: deploy
  displayName: Deploy
  environment: 
    name: dev     # This should be replaced with environment specific variable
    resourceType: VirtualMachine
    tags: WEB01

In above code, my intension is to provide name as environment specific variable. Could someone pls help?

Thank you!

[Define variables](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/process/variables?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml%2Cbatch) — Lei Yang, Mar 01 '22 at 08:52

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 01 '22 at 18:01

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You can do this with parameters, but you need to use the expression syntax which is evaluated when the pipeline is compiled

parameters:
  - name: environment
    type: string
    default: dev
    values:
      - dev
      - test
      - preprod
      - prod

jobs:
  - deployment: deploy
    displayName: Deploy
    environment: 
      name: ${{ parameters.environment }}
      resourceType: VirtualMachine
      tags: WEB01

answered Mar 01 '22 at 18:01

James Reed

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We have added multiple deployment jobs in templates and when im using parameters, it is throwing error like "A value for environment parameter must be provided." – Kart Mar 02 '22 at 07:43
@Kart Could you provide an example of your pipeline and template? – James Reed Mar 09 '22 at 10:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 21 '22 at 22:20

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You might like my answer in another post. it does stages per environment with approvals.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/74159554/4485260

answered Oct 21 '22 at 22:20

T Brown

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How to specify dynamic value as environment name for virtual machine resource in yaml pipelines

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