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Implementing Azure DevOps Solutions
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Implementing Azure DevOps Solutions

by Henry Been, Maik van der Gaag
June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
11h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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Storing secrets in variable groups

There are more secrets involved in application development than those that are required to connect to other systems. Examples include license keys, which are required during application compilation, or database usernames and passwords, which need to be passed on to the application after deployment or as part of an ARM template deployment.

These secrets can be stored in pipeline variables or variable groups, which we covered in Chapter 3, in the Creating a build definition in Azure DevOps section. Microsoft will store all variables that are marked as secrets securely and make them non-retrievable through the user interface.

However, there might be reasons for not wanting to store secrets in Azure DevOps but ...

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