The MettleCI Azure DevOps DataStage repository templates pipeline examples require the setup of Environments Azure ‘Environments’ (some requiring Approval) and Variable Groups to store MettleCI and DataStage installation information.

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The latter approach requires far less setup and configuration, so that is the approach we will document here.

Guides

• Guides

• Prerequisites

• Creating a Personal Access Token

• Authentication against a GitHub Account

• Create Repository

• Create Environment

• Create Secret

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• Create the variable group, recording the id (referred to later as <GROUP_ID>). Regular variables (not the secret value variables we use for passwords) can be added at this time (<VARIABLES> is entered as variable=value, each pair separated by a space)

• Code Block
  az pipelines variable-group create \ --name <VRAIABLE_GROUP_NAME> \ --variables <VARIABLES> \ --authorize true \ --description <GROUP_DESCRIPTION> \ --organization <ORGANISATION_URL> \ --project <PROJECT_NAME>

• Add secret value variables to the group individually for MCIPASSWORD and IISPASSWORD

  Code Block
  az pipelines variable-group variable create \ --org <ORGANISATION_URL> \ --project <PROJECT_NAME> \ --group-id <GROUP_ID> \ --name <VARIABLE_NAME> \ --secret true \ --value <VARIABLE_VALUE>

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