Injecting Jenkins Credentials into a Build Job

External

• https://support.cloudbees.com/hc/en-us/articles/203802500-Injecting-Secrets-into-Jenkins-Build-Jobs
• https://support.cloudbees.com/hc/en-us/articles/204897020-Fetch-a-userid-and-password-from-a-Credential-object-in-a-Pipeline-job-

Internal

• Jenkins Operations

Overview

This article describes the procedure to declare credentials, in this case an external repository username and password, in a Jenkins credential store and then expose them to a build job, in this case a Gradle-driven build.

Pre-Requisites

• Jenkins Credential Plugin has to be installed.
• Jenkins Credentials Binding Plugin has to be installed.

Procedure

Define the Credential

Credentials -> System -> Global credentials (unrestricted) -> Add Credential

Username with password

Scope: Global. The Global scope is required if the credential must be exposed to the build jobs.

Username:

Password:

ID: same as username.

OK.

Upon creation, the credential should be reported in "Global credentials (unrestricted)" section.