Azure DevOps variable group

Export secrets into one Azure DevOps variable group.

The connection

What	This provider
Vendor	Azure DevOps
Key	`azure-devops-variable-group`
Availability	`available`. You can connect it today.
Credential penv holds	`azure-devops-pat`
Values read back	no
Activation	`immediate`

Direction	What it does
`export`	Writes names and values from penv into the store.

Azure DevOps returns no value once it holds one, so penv can write here and cannot read back.

immediate. The running app sees a new value at once.

Direction	Policies you can pick
`export`	`create_only`, `overwrite`, `overwrite_and_prune`

How syncs work says what each one does.

You paste a credential you already hold. penv seals it and never shows it again.

Field	Label	Kind	Required	What it is
`token`	Personal access token	secret, masked here and sealed	yes	Give it Variable Groups → Read, create, & manage. PATs lapse on their own: an admin can cap their lifetime, an Entra-backed organization deactivates one unused for 90 days, and a removed user's token dies within the hour.

Fixed when you connect, and shared by every mapping on it.

Field	Label	Kind	Required	Advanced	What it is
`organization`	Organization	text	yes	no	The first path segment of your dev.azure.com URL.
`project`	Project	text	yes	no	The project whose library holds the variable group.

Answered once per environment you map.

Field	Label	Kind	Required	Advanced	What it is
`groupId`	Variable group	text	yes	no	The variableGroupId at the end of the group's URL under Pipelines → Library.

penv probes for these when it verifies the connection.

Permission	Directions	Blocking	Without it
`vso.variablegroups_read`	every direction	yes	Export cannot read the group it has to write back whole.
`vso.variablegroups_manage`	`export`	yes	Export cannot write anything.