Environment variables in Pipeline

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I have a private package on a private PyPI. Using the page from the docs I put the following in requirements.txt:

--extra-index-url https://${MY_USER}:${MY_PASSWORD}@my-private-package-index-url
my-private-package

Making use of the environment variables page I can install the package in a Viktor app and use it in my app. This command:

viktor-cli start --env FOO=bar

In Azure Devops I have set these variables (MY_USER and MY_PASSWORD) on the pipeline. After uploading my code to Azure Devops, which triggers the pipeline, isntallation of my-private-package fails. I get the error messages:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement my-private-package (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for my-private-package

It seems it wasn’t able to pass my Variables with the URL.

When I tried to upload the same code with the variables as plain text, it worked like expected.
When I do an Echo in the Pipeline to call the variables I get “***”, indicating it can find them.

Does someone have an idea how I can get this to work?

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Making use of the “Keep this value secret” option in Azure DevOps seems to be the problem. Adding a new Variable with the same Value passes the right value to the .txt file and the Pipeline can install my-private-package.

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3

If I look at this page you could still use the variable while keeping it secret, it will require you to map it to an environment variable though.

4

Thank you Raoul

Adding

env:
    MY_PASSWORD: $(TEST)  #TEST is the variable I shared in my second screenshot

to the Pipeline before the pip install of the requirements.txt fixed my issue.