DevOps IIS Web App Deploy XML variable substitution Ignores key named SECRET_KEY

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I have an appSetting named SECRET_KEY. I am unable to get the IIS Web App Deploy task to substitute a key with this name, all my other XML Variable Substitutions work fine.

I have no errors, I can look in the log and see the

Processing substitution for xml node : appSettings

it lists all other appSetting entries that I have variables defined for but nothing listed for SECRET_KEY.

I suspect the issue may be related to the key name, anybody else ran into certain keys not being substituted?

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It looks that you are not first. Please check this topic. There is no much info. But issue is similar to your. I checked also developer community, without a luck. – Krzysztof Madej

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secret is one of variable prefixes that are reserved by the system, please don't use such variable prefixes. Check the documentation here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/process/variables?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml%2Cbatch#variable-characters

User-defined variables can consist of letters, numbers, ., and _ characters. Don't use variable prefixes that are reserved by the system. These are: endpoint, input, secret, and securefile. Any variable that begins with one of these strings (regardless of capitalization) will not be available to your tasks and scripts.