Injecting Jenkins Credentials into a Build Job
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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
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.