Azure account variables

Azure accounts can be referenced in a project through a project variable of the type Azure account.

The Azure PowerShell step will allow you to bind the account to an Azure account variable, using the binding syntax. By using an variable for the account, you can have different accounts used across different environments or regions using scoping.

The Add Variable window is then displayed and lists all the Azure accounts.

Select the account that was created in the previous step to assign it to the variable.

Azure account variable properties

The Azure account Variable also exposes the following properties that you can reference in a PowerShell script:

Service Principal

Management certificate

Accessing the properties in a script

Each of the above properties can be referenced in any of the supported scripting languages such as PowerShell and Bash.

# For an account with a variable name of 'azure account'

# Using $OctopusParameters
Write-Host 'AzureAccount.Id=' $OctopusParameters["azure account"]
Write-Host 'AzureAccount.Client=' $OctopusParameters["azure account.Client"]

# Directly as a variable
Write-Host 'AzureAccount.Id=' $azureAccount
Write-Host 'AzureAccount.Client=' $azureaccountClient

# For an account with a variable name of 'azure account'

id=$(get_octopusvariable "azure account")
client=$(get_octopusvariable "azure account.Client")
echo "Azure Account Id is: $id"
echo "Azure Account Client is: $client"

Learn more

• Variable blog posts

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