Secret Pipeline Parameter in Azure Devops

Question

I have a use case where I want to use pipeline parameters in a yaml pipeline with user name and password. For the username it's easy because I simply add the following in my parameters section.

parameters:
- name: Username
  type: string
  displayName: Username(Email)

I also want to use password as a pipeline parameter but I haven't found a way to declare it as a secret. Is there a way to use a pipeline parameter as secret like a variable? I found a workaround so far as I declared a variable as a secret and update this variable before each run. But that's not the best experience. Maybe I have missed something in the docs?

It would be awesome if it works as in the following code:

parameters:
- name: Username
  type: string
  displayName: Username(Email)
- name: Password
  type: secret
  displayName: Password

Answer 1

This is not possible. Some time ago I even created a feature request on developer community Secret type for runtime paramaters (feel free to upvote). So if you have workaround working you must stick with that for some time, until Azure DevOps team will not implement this.