Azure Pipelines Environment variables not working for PowerShell on Target Machines

Question

I'm unable to get the environment variables (for example $env:RELEASE_RELEASENAME ) for a task that runs a PowerShell script on a target machine, however, the env variables work for PowerShell Inline.

Does getting env variables from PowerShell on target machines need special treatment or am I missing something here?

Answer 1

Sometimes, I met this problem with Ubuntu hosted agent. My solution is to manually add the environment, then I can get the environment variable in inline script or script file.