Deploy only certain resources into Azure using DevOps Pipeline - azure-devops

Question

I have a main.bicep template with multiple resources that I deploy to Azure via my DevOps pipeline. My template is currently configured to either deploy all modules to Azure or none. However, I would like to customize this in my pipeline so that only certain resources show up in my resource group so that it acts like a selection catalog.
However, I need advice and help on how to solve the problem as I can’t find the right approach. Attached you can see a snippet from my bicep template below.
– main.bicep–
param deployAppInsights bool = true param deployNetworkWatcher bool = true param deploySentinel bool = true
Example for a module
// Deploy App Insights resource
module appInsights 'AzureMonitor/AppInsights/appInsights-temp.bicep' = if(deployAppInsights) { name: 'appInsightsDeployment' params: { appName: appInsightsName regionId: regionId // tagsArray: tagsArray requestSource: requestSource workspaceResourceId: workspace.outputs.resourceWorkspaceIdOutput } }
This snippet is in my pipeline - yml
(I would like to shorten the parameters block by using override parameters.)
parameters:
- name: appInsights
type: boolean
default: True
values:
- True
- False
inputs: overrideParameters: -deployAppInsights false -deployNetworkWatcher true -deploySentinel true
Currently, my override parameters are hardcoded, but I’d like to keep it in a general way, like for example:
overrideParameters: -deployAppInsights ${{appInsights}} -deployNetworkWatcher ${{networkWatcher}} -deploySentinel ${{sentinel}}
However, this does not unfortunately work. Could anyone please help me in this regard, how I can solve this or how the variables need to look like?
Thank you very much!
Best regards
Jennifer

Answer 1

As far as I understand, the syntax you are using is wrong in the below code
overrideParameters: -deployAppInsights ${{appInsights}} -deployNetworkWatcher ${{networkWatcher}} -deploySentinel ${{sentinel}}
Since you have already defined parameters section in the Yml file. The correct syntax is
overrideParameters: -deployAppInsights ${{parameters.appInsights}} -deployNetworkWatcher ${{parameters.networkWatcher}} -deploySentinel ${{parameters.sentinel}}
A sample code snippet for your reference
parameters:
- name: var1
type: string
- name: var2
type: string
- name: bool1
type: bool
...
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...
- task: AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeployment#3
inputs:
deploymentScope: 'Resource Group'
azureResourceManagerConnection: ''
subscriptionId: ''
action: 'Create Or Update Resource Group'
resourceGroupName: rg-${{parameters.var1}}-${{parameters.var2}}
location: ''
templateLocation: 'Linked artifact'
csmFile: $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/arm.json
csmParametersFile: $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/arm.parameters.json
deploymentMode: 'Incremental'
overrideParameters:
-string1 ${{parameters.var1}}
-string2 ${{parameters.var2}}
-flag ${{parameters.bool1}}
For more, please refer to the link from Microsoft. Azure Devops Template
Edit: After the first comment
Please update your 'appInsights' parameter as follows
parameters:
- name: appInsights
type: boolean
default: true