From the course: Intermediate Jenkins: Automate, Integrate, and Secure CI/CD Workflows at Scale
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Use secrets and credentials - Jenkins Tutorial
From the course: Intermediate Jenkins: Automate, Integrate, and Secure CI/CD Workflows at Scale
Use secrets and credentials
When we're working with passwords, API keys, or other confidential details, Jenkins refers to that data as a secret or a credential. With that in mind, let's take a look at how Jenkins stores credentials and how we can use them safely and securely in a pipeline. Jenkins supports several types of credentials, including usernames and passwords, SSH keys, files, and text strings. Strings are particularly useful for values like API keys or security tokens. Pipelines can access credentials in several ways, but the two most common methods use the Credentials function and the WithCredentials build step. The Credentials function takes the ID of a secret stored in Jenkins as its argument and assigns the sensitive values to one or more environment variables. For most credential types, the function will return one value containing the sensitive information. However, when the Credentials function is used with a username and password credential, three variables are returned. The variable specified…
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