title: What is the best way to have .env file at pipeline job level in azure devops
body: <p>Could you please suggest what is the best way to have .env file available for my azure devops pipeline. (Note we are ignoring the .env file to be pushed to Git repository)</p>
  
  <p>My Node.js utility application code base is in azure-devops Git.</p>
  
  <p>I have an azure build pipeline (YML version) which is a CI pipeline (doing just compile &amp; test).</p>
  
  <p>Unit test uses API call which needs API secret token to run.</p>
  
  <p>These tokens are stored in .env file (I used dotenv package of Node.js)
  But we are not pushing .env file to Git.</p>
  
  <p>So how should I make .env file available to my CI pipeline.</p>