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Finalize variables in pipelines

Finalize variables in pipelines

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Finalize variables in pipelines

- [Instructor] So now what I want to do is go back to my tasks and make sure we are looking at our tasks and that we have website name, server name which is being used here, server name, website name, hosting plan. We're good. The reason I did that again is because if those values are going to change at some point, I don't want to go back into these different stages and have to change all that. Now granted and for this one I'm only using the resource group deployment in one stage so it's not a terrible deal, but I really like to track my values and variables. One last thing about a variable which you may or may not know is I have the ability to do what we call create a secret. By creating a secret variable, I basically turn this into a 256 bit encrypted mask value and so therefore, if I wanted to put in passwords, put in a connection string, put in some values that I really want to keep secret from everybody else, I only want the people that set it up to be able to have access to the…

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