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Support step output variables in ARM templates

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enhancement runner/arm
Dominant language
Go
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Forks
19
Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
2

Description

This is a take-away item from #3. A nice feature for the ARM runner would be to support a similar concept of propagated step variables like in the Terraform runner.

We can probably implement this by leveraging the template output feature via Azure CLI. The current implementation in #3 creates individual deployment metadata for each step, so we can most likely implement some logic to parse the outputs from previous steps and expose them as variables to later step ARM templates.

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Research direction

Start by reading issue #3 and the current ARM runner behavior that creates deployment metadata for each step. Trace how Azure CLI template outputs could be parsed and exposed to later ARM templates; done means a later step can consume output variables from an earlier step.

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Assessment

Tech stack
azure, go, terraform
Domain
cloud, infrastructure
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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