Azure pipeline Yaml definition to generate semantic version for dotnet project and save it to var group for other other pipelines use

semver-pipeline.yml

trigger:
- master

jobs:
- job: determine_ver
  pool:
    # vmImage: 'Ubuntu-16.04'
    vmImage: 'windows-2019'
  
  steps:
  - checkout: self
    persistCredentials: true
    clean: true
  - task: GitVersion@4
    displayName: 'GitVersion'
    inputs:
      updateAssemblyInfo: true
  - powershell: echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=semVersion;isOutput=true]'$(GitVersion.SemVer)'"
    name: setvarStep
  - script: echo %Action%%BuildVersion%
    displayName: 'Set build version'
    env:
      Action: '##vso[build.updatebuildnumber]'
      BuildVersion: $(GitVersion.SemVer)

- job: update_var_group
  dependsOn: determine_ver
  pool: server
  variables:
    semVersion: $[ dependencies.determine_ver.outputs['setvarStep.semVersion'] ]

  steps:
  - task: InvokeRESTAPI@1
    inputs:
      connectionType: 'connectedServiceName'
      serviceConnection: 'DevOps REST API'
      method: 'PUT'
      body: '{"type":"Vsts","name":"your-var-group-name","variables":{"your-var-name":{"isSecret":false,"value": $(semVersion) }}}'
      urlSuffix: 'yourOrg/yourProject/_apis/distributedtask/variablegroups/{replace-with-variableGroupId}?api-version=5.0-preview.1'
      waitForCompletion: 'false'