az containerapp update - cannot take environment variables with values containing spaces #30396
Description
Describe the bug
It's not possible to pass environment variables with values that contain spaces to az containerapp update command with --replace-env-vars parameter.
Related command
az containerapp update
Errors
ERROR: Environment variables must be in the format "<key>=<value> <key>=secretref:<value> ...".
Issue script & Debug output
RESOURCE_GROUP='some-rg'
CONTAINER_APP_NAME='some-container-app'
LOCATION='West Europe'
ACR_NAME='some-acr'
IMAGE_TAG='$(transformedDockerTag)'
ENV_FILE_PATH='$(Pipeline.Workspace)/BuildArtifact/Configuration/environment-variables.acc.env'
# az containerapp command cannot take environment variables from file directly, only via command line, such as:
# key1="value1" key2="value2" key3="value3"
# convert .env file to Azure CLI-compatible environment variables format
# remove \r from .env file because these Linux commands expect \n only as newline character
# trim trailing spaces
REPLACE_ENV_VARS=$(awk -F= 'NF==2 {
gsub(/\r/, "");
printf "%s=%s ", $1, $2
}' $ENV_FILE_PATH | tr -d '\r' | tr '\n' ' ')
REPLACE_ENV_VARS=$(echo $REPLACE_ENV_VARS | sed 's/[[:space:]]*$//')
echo The environment variables were successfully read from .env file and will be passed as --replace-env-vars argument of az command as follows:
echo $REPLACE_ENV_VARS
# deploy a new revision of the container app
az containerapp update \
--name $CONTAINER_APP_NAME \
--resource-group $RESOURCE_GROUP \
--image $ACR_NAME/censored:$IMAGE_TAG \
--debug \
--replace-env-vars $REPLACE_ENV_VARS
Environment variables are read from an .env file in my solution where one line is one variable in key="value" format (quotes included)
The echo $REPLACE_ENV_VARS echoes the variables correctly, such as:
ActiveDirectoryClientId="someguid" ActiveDirectoryClientSecret="something" OAuthUserExpirationFrom="Test User 07"
but the az containerapp update command fails when there are spaces in the value of an environment variable. I have confirmed that removing spaces fixes the problem but I need the spaces there.
Also I need double quotes in the value, such as "Test User 07" <[email protected]> (this should be the environment variable value) and at first I thought that the double quotes are the culprit, but no, it's the spaces. I hope passing double quotes in variable value is also possible...
Expected behavior
No error, just environment value being passed as is, along with spaces and other characters between double quotes.
Also it would be best to have support for reading environment variables from a file, avoiding this CLI hassle.
Environment Summary
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Task : Azure CLI
Description : Run Azure CLI commands against an Azure subscription in a PowerShell Core/Shell script when running on Linux agent or PowerShell/PowerShell Core/Batch script when running on Windows agent.
Version : 2.248.1
Author : Microsoft Corporation
Help : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/deploy/azure-cli
/usr/bin/az --version
WARNING: You have 2 update(s) available. Consider updating your CLI installation with 'az upgrade'
azure-cli 2.66.0 *
core 2.66.0 *
telemetry 1.1.0
Extensions:
azure-devops 1.0.1
Dependencies:
msal 1.31.0
azure-mgmt-resource 23.1.1
Python location '/opt/az/bin/python3'
Extensions directory '/opt/az/azcliextensions'
Python (Linux) 3.12.7 (main, Oct 30 2024, 03:56:40) [GCC 11.4.0]
Additional context
az is run inside a linux build agent on devops (ubuntu-latest) in an Azure CLI build task.