How to make Delay task take value from variable instead of hardcoded value for delayForMinutes input?
When i do following, it works fine:

- job: WaitForDeploy
    dependsOn: Main
    pool: Server
    steps:
    - task: Delay@1
      inputs:
        delayForMinutes: '1'

but when i do it like this it does not:

- job: WaitForDeploy
    dependsOn: Main
    pool: Server
    steps:
    - task: Delay@1
      inputs:
        delayForMinutes: '$(SleepCount)'

$(SleepCount) is defined in variables as empty string and later on is passed from python script to pipeline via: print(f'##vso[task.setvariable variable=SleepCount]{delay_seconds}') I am printing this out in previos job and it shows intiger correctly:

- script: 'echo $(SleepCount)'
      displayName: "print_sleep_count"

it looks like this variable value is not passed beyond job where i return it from python script, how to pass it?
This do not work:

variables:
  SleepCount: ""

jobs:
  - job: Main
    pool:
      name: 'CDaaSLinux'

    [...]

    - task: PythonScript@0
      inputs:
        scriptSource: 'filePath'
        scriptPath: '$(Build.SourcesDirectory)/sleep_count.py'
      env:
        ACTUAL_START_DATE: $(ActualStartDate_value)

    - script: 'echo $(SleepCount)'
      name: setVariable
      displayName: "print_sleep_count"

    - script: 'echo "Waiting for Deploy for $(SleepCount) minutes"'
      displayName: "Deploy_message_for_user"
      
  - job: WaitForDeploy
    dependsOn: Main
    variables:
      SleepCount: $[ dependencies.Main.outputs['setVariable.SleepCount']]
    pool: Server
    steps:
    - task: Delay@1
      inputs:
        delayForMinutes: '$(SleepCount)'

CodePudding user response：

In order to use a variable in a different stage/job you need to set the isoutput flag when setting the variable

print(f'##vso[task.setvariable variable=SleepCount;isoutput=true]{delay_seconds}')

Set an output variable for use in future jobs