VSTS : Can I access the Build variables from Release definition?

Question

In VSTS CI/CD , I am setting some variable's value in a Powershell task in CI. During CD I want to access that variable's value to do something , lets say echo.

Is this possible? If so, how?

Answer 1

You could write it out to a json/xml file and include that file in your published artifacts of your build defintion. Then read in that file via PowerShell in your release definition.

ConvertTo-Json | Out-File "file.json"
Get-Content "file.json" | ConvertFrom-Json