Azure Dev ops replace tokens per environment in release pipeline

Question

i am using the Replace token extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=qetza.replacetokens to replace variable in **/*.config files

Our build pi

Answer 1

Release activities run on the release agent. You're running token replacement after the application is deployed to the app service, so the token replacement isn't getting deployed.

That's one issue.

Another issue is that web deploy packages are zip archives, so token replacement isn't going to affect the files contained in the zip file. You shouldn't use token replacement in conjunction with web deploy. You should use web deploy transforms (parameters.xml and SetParameters.xml), which are supported by the web deploy task that you're using. parameters.xml allows you to define xpath expressions for locating elements to transform, and the setparameters.xml files contain the values to use in the transformation.