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Adding a Secret

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To use Secret as an environment-specific Variable, you should open the Variable Group and mark the Variable as Secret.

The following steps outline the process of marking a Variable as Secret:

  1. From Azure DevOps, go to Library.
  2. Select a Variable Group.
  3. In the Variables section, mark a Variable as Secret by clicking Change variable type to plain text.

As Secrets are encrypted Variables with a higher protection level, users must declare them in the env_vars section of the TransformationsOfConfigFiles/environment-specific-secrets.yaml file.

This will allow reading Secrets and passing them, along with other environment-specific Variables, to Deployments during the Deploy Aras Innovator or Continuous Integration Pipelines.

If the Secret is not defined in the environment-specific-secrets.yaml file, it will be read as an empty Variable, so use caution.