Please Add Replica Discovery and Failover Support to the AzureAppConfiguration Azure DevOps Task

[bbrandt]

As @zhenlan has describe below, the App Configuration pipeline tasks currently don't have built-in support for replica discovery and failover. Please add this support natively to the ADO task so that each pipeline does not have to manually parameterize and manage their own list of replicas.

Edited. Original title and question below.

How Is DR/Failover/Automatic Replica Discovery Configured with the Azure DevOps Extensions?

If all my Azure Pipelines read config from the ADO task AzureAppConfiguration@8 and they point to an Azure App config resource in South Central US, if the entire South Central US region is down, how should I have AzureAppConfiguration@8 configured so that it fails over to one of my many geo-replicas?

[zhenlan]

The App Configuration pipeline tasks currently don't have built-in support for replica discovery and failover. We may consider adding these features in the future.

In the meantime, since each replica has its own endpoint, you can parameterize the App Configuration endpoint in the pipeline tasks. This allows you to switch to a different endpoint in case of an outage.

[bbrandt]

@zhenlan Thank you for the answer and the excellent workaround description. I have updated this question to be a request for the feature. I understand you will need to gauge interest, prioritize, etc, so this could be quite some time before any action is taken. Thanks!