In my work as Cloud Solution Architect I often find teams struggling with the exact same problem. In this blogpost I will highlight one of those problems; passing on ARM output variables within a VSTS pipeline.
Many developers have Powershell or other scripts in place, that fix this problem, but I want to highlight an extension, which is freely available and does this for you, for free!
This extension enables you to use the ARM Deployment outputs in your VSTS environment.
This step will use the last successful deployment within the selected resource group. If this deployment has outputs, all of them are copied to VSTS variables by the ARM Output key.
These outputs can then be used by default VSTS ways:
$(same-key-as-in-arm-template)Usually this task is ran directly after the ‘Azure Resource Group Deployment’ task.
So my pro-tip; Stop using your own scripts and implement this handy extension!
PS: On a sidenote, Kees is also a great guy, give him a tweet after you install this in your project 
Link to Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=keesschollaart.arm-outputs
Kees on Twitter: https://twitter.com/keesschollaart
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