Set Output Variable in Azure CLI task on VSTS

Question

I am getting crazy to achieve this very simple task. I need to set an Output Variable in an Azure CLI task on Visual Studio Team Services, because next task in the Release d

Answer 1

Inspired from the answer above but with some variation.

Works in an Azure CLI task on a Hosted Ubuntu agent in Microsoft DevOps as of July 2019.

This example runs an az command to fetch the full resource name of a storage account and sets it in the variable _StorageAccountNameVar for use in another pipeline task.

myvar=`az storage account list -g MyResourceGroup --query "[?contains(name, 'config')].name" -o tsv`
echo $myvar
echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=_StorageAccountNameVar;]$myvar"