How to pass ConnectionString when deploying AzureRM Web App in TFS? - azure

Question

I am struggling to pass ConnectionString when deploying AzureRM Web App in TFS Release Manager. I have tried to put the ConnectionString in the "Additional Arguments" field and provided the correct variables from the "Variables" section. However, I am getting the following error:
[error] Error: Unrecognized argument '-connectionString'. Error count: 1.
Does someone have experience in how to set up ConnectionString when working with AzureRM Endpoint to deploy Web Apps? As far as I know, the approach described above works fine when using Azure Web App Deployment with Azure Classic Endpoint.

Answer 1

You could also try to use some 3-party extension such as Azure WebApp Configuration task.
This task reads VSTS/TFS variables and adds those as AppSettings and ConnectionStrings to an Azure WebApp.

Answer 2

You could inculcate the following sample, to fit your deployment via TFS.
{
"apiVersion": "2014-11-01",
"name": "appsettings",
"type": "config",
"dependsOn": [
"[resourceId('Microsoft.Web/Sites', parameters('siteName'))]"
],
"properties": {
"AppSettingKey1": "Some value",
"AppSettingKey2": "My second setting",
"AppSettingKey3": "My third setting"
}
},
{
"apiVersion": "2014-11-01",
"name": "connectionstrings",
"type": "config",
"dependsOn": [
"[resourceId('Microsoft.Web/Sites', parameters('siteName'))]"
],
"properties": {
"ConnString1": { "value": "My custom connection string", "type": "custom" },
"ConnString2": { "value": "My SQL connection string", "type": "SQLAzure" }
}
},
Refer the sample here for more details