Run dick gives us the ability to define options to be entered by the its GUI, is there any capability to have job variable based on the input without the end user of the job seeing it?
E.g, if the the user choose the product and the environment and the product behind LB, I want to use a script internally to define new job variable and assign it the port number that could be used later on within the job steps.
Yes, there is.
You can add a new option whith Allowed Values set to Remote URL, then put the URL to your script which will return the actual value based on other options.
For exmaple
http://localhost/cgi-bin/getPort.py?environment=${option.environment.value}&product=${option.product.value}
Rundeck Manual option-model-provider
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please I have several simulation Classes and I want to give the users possibility to enter the name of simulation he / she wants to run from a jenkins pipline
For that I want to parametrize the simulation name so insted that user write the command : mvn gatling -Dgatling.simulationClass=package.theNameofSimulation ( here the name is static) , I want him directy enter the name of simulation he choose, enter image description here
because I guess that the user doesn't know the code and commands
so we have the possibility to passing in parameter the numberOfVirtuelUsers I want to do the same thing for simulation
Thanks you
Maybe if you create an environment variable, you could paramatize the simulation classes. I'm very note sure because i'm newbie in gatling but i do that on other things like URL, users, time etc... and that's work so why not the simulation class.
String nameSimulation = String.format("Dgatling.simulationClass=package.%s", System.getenv("NAME"));
I was trying this scenario but I am not able to figure out
I have a name and value in parameter store in SSM, now I am running the CF template from CLI using code pipeline, and I want the CF template take values directly from parameter store and should not prompt
on screen asking me to give the value.
I tried this but it prompt me .
AWS::SSM::Parameter::value
this is prompting when I used to upload a template in screen. how to avoid it and make the script take the value from parameter store directly
You have two choices for that:
Provide a default value for the parameter.
Use ParameterOverrides in your CodePiepline to provide the required value for the parameter.
I'm currently having trouble applying logon script(powershell) on windows servers.
The logon script has the line to set user environment variables but the variables don't look like being applying immediately from the result of set command on command prompts.
I've been looking at the behavior through process monitor while logging on to the new session.
And finally I have found the newly created variables need to be associated with RegenerateUserEnvironment function on shell32.dll.
I'm able to look at the correct result of set command after RegenerateUserEnvironment is called.
So I was wondering whether we had a way to trigger RegenerateUserEnvironment function and it needs to be executed on powershell.
Can you shed some light on this?
Best Regards,
Haewon
TL;DR: Search and replace placeholders in a text file with the decrypted values of secrets in a variable group.
I would like to use a PowerShell script to receive a variable group in a release pipeline and then iterate through the list, performing search-and-replace on a file being released.
The variables in the variable list are secrets so I want to overwrite the placeholders in the file with the decrypted value of the variables.
The values of the variables are environment specific, so I do not want to provide the values at build time and do not want to include the decrypted values in a stored artifact.
The file being search-replaced will be used in an execution at release time but will not be deployed to a host, so will be destroyed upon completion of the pipeline execution.
The Tokenization task from the Visual Studio Marketplace does this job well. You'll need to install it into your Azure DevOps organisation, it's available at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TotalALM.totalalm-tokenization
By default the Tokenization task uses double underscores to identify the placeholders. It will replace any text that that matches the name of a variable in your release definition as long as it's surrounded by double underscores.
So if you want to write the value of a variable called MySecretVariable into your file you'll need to add a place holder like __MySecretVariable__ into the file where ever you want that value to be written.
The Tokenization task will write any encrypted values into the file in plain text but in the release logs they will be obfuscated.
If you're storing your variables in a variable group just link that to the release definition and set the scope to the appropriate environment.
So, I've found that, as long as I have a Base64 token configured for Variable Groups (click 'Show all scopes' when creating a new PAT) then I can call GET https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/distributedtask/variablegroups/{groupId}?api-version=5.1-preview.1 to get the variable group I need.
The above, however, will not return a value for secrets, although there is a hack/workaround for this (involving multiple pipeline steps).
The advisable route is to create a Key Vault in Azure and perform the processing either in Powershell or code.
As I need the decrypted key values passed into my application via a repeated find-replace, I have implemented a Powershell script in one Release pipeline step and consume the output in the next step.
I have lots of URL values and their keys. But there is no way to batch import the variables and the "value" controls are also not text boxes in the Variables Group page to perform chrome browser extensions assisted find and replace.
If this is possible, what is the syntax to refer to the key?
As in, I have a variable App.URL : www.contoso.com.
I am using the key to substitute value in my next variable like this Login.URL : $(App.URL)\Login and this doesn't work.
GitHub link : https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/vsts-docs/issues/3902#issuecomment-489694654
This isn't currently available, not sure if it will be. Can you create a task early in your pipeline that sets the variables you need in subsequent tasks/steps? This gives you more control as you can store the script along with your source. You could then use a pipeline variable for the environment you're in and let your script use that to set values appropriately.
See Set variables in scripts in the MS docs.
If it's not possible to re-architect your app to concatenate the url strings in the application, what the previous commenter said about creating a simple script to do that for you would be the way to go. Ie:
#!/bin/bash
#full login url
fullLoginUrl=$APP.URL\$LOGINSUFFIX
echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=Login.URL]$fullLoginUrl
Otherwise, perhaps playing around with the run time vs compile time variables in YAML pipelines might be worth trying.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/process/variables?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml%2Cbatch#understand-variable-syntax