Migrate/Copy Azure Devops Variable Groups from a JSON file (plenty of room for improvement)

copy_az_devops_vars.py

import json
import argparse
from azure.cli.core import get_default_cli

# TODO: Wrap all required calls login/fetch/upload into a single call of this script or if you have time perform lookups and offer CLI style options
# Store JSON file from AZ CLI as: 'az pipelines variable-group show --group-id 136 --org "https://dev.azure.com/ORG/" --project "PROJECT NAME" --output json>136.json'

# Run as: 'python3 az-devops-import-variables.py -s 136.json -id 150 -project "project-uid" -org "https://dev.azure.com/ORG/"'

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Azure DevOps Variable import", formatter_class=argparse.RawTextHelpFormatter)
parser.add_argument('-s', type=argparse.FileType('r'), help="JSON File")
parser.add_argument('-id', help="Variable group id")
parser.add_argument('-org', help="Azure DevOps ORG")
parser.add_argument('-project', help="Azure DevOps Project name")
args = parser.parse_args()

j = json.load(args.s)

for variable, values in j['variables'].items():
    print(f"""Creating variable: {variable} in project "{args.project}" under ORG {args.org}...""")
    get_default_cli().invoke(['pipelines', 'variable-group', 'variable', 'create', '--organization', str(args.org), '--project', str(args.project),  '--group-id', args.id, '--name', str(variable), '--value', values['value']])