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How to run a job in an Azure DevOps pipeline multiple times with different variable groups?

I have a job with some steps in an Azure DevOps pipeline that I want to run multiple times, each time with a different variable group. Here is a minimal example:

strategy:
  matrix:
    Customer:
      variableGroupName: 'Customer variables'
    Test:
      variableGroupName: 'Test variables'

pool:
  vmImage: 'windows-latest'

variables:
- group: $(variableGroupName)

steps:
- script: echo $(MyVariable)

However, it yields this error when trying to run the pipeline:

An error occurred while loading the YAML build pipeline. Variable group was not found or is not authorized for use. For authorization details, refer to https://aka.ms/yamlauthz.

How can I change the configuration so that the variable group name gets set differently each run?

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    Based on what Robert wrote, I ended up with this solution:

    parameters:
- name: variableGroups
  type: object
  default:
  - name: 'Azure'
    variableGroupName: 'MyApplication Azure'
    displayName: 'Azure'
  - name: 'Customer_Test'
    variableGroupName: 'MyApplication Customer Test'
    displayName: 'Customer Test'
  - name: 'Customer_Prod'
    variableGroupName: 'MyApplication Customer Prod'
    displayName: 'Customer Prod'

pool:
  vmImage: 'windows-latest'

stages:
- stage: 'Build'
  jobs:
  - ${{ each variableGroup in parameters.variableGroups }}:
    - job: '${{ variableGroup.name }}'
      displayName: '${{ variableGroup.displayName }}'
      variables:
      - group: ${{ variableGroup.variableGroupName }}
      steps:
      - script: echo $(MyVariable)

    I'm marking his answer as the accepted answer. But just for the sake of completeness, my code is here as well. I changed the indentation, added a displayName property to the variableGroups, and I don't think ${{ environment.name }} worked for me so I changed the name of the jobs.


  2. 0

    What I find useful in these scenarios is a for each loop over the items I have, in your case a collection of variable groups.

    Here’s an updated code snippet:

    parameters:
  # Define the variable groups to use
  - name: variableGroups
    type: object
    default:
      - name: "Customer"
        variableGroupName: "Customer variables"
      - name: "Test"
        variableGroupName: "Test variables"

pool:
  vmImage: 'windows-latest'

stages:
  - stage: "test_stage"
    jobs:
      # Run the job for each variable group
      - ${{ each variableGroup in parameters.variableGroups }}:
          - job: "run_for_each_${{ variableGroup.name }}_variable_group_job"
            displayName: "Using ${{ upper(variableGroup.name) }} variable group"
            variables:
              - group: ${{ variableGroup.variableGroupName }}
            steps:
              - script: echo $(MyVariable)
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