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Work with environment variables in Azure Bicep
Did you know Azure Bicep can read environment variables? In this blog, we’ll explore how to use environment variables in Azure Bicep when set from an Azure Pipeline.
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Alongside the release of Bicepparam is the readEnvironmentVariable function, designed to retrieve environment variables either from your deployment agent…
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