Some time ago I published a post in which I explain how you can create credentials in Jenkins. It’s very important topic because there are several ways to manage the credentials, but not all of them are safe. I showed you in my post how to use Credential Plugin, and it’s enough for adding, storing and managing secrets, but not for using them in the builds. I think this topic should have a separate discussion, so I decided to make this post. So now you will learn how to use credentials in Jenkins projects! Short reminder One can add and manage Continue reading

Every system, application or another solution has some authentication providers. Sometimes it’s a local password storage, sometimes administrator can implement AD (or another LDAP), Radius, OAuth etc. Nobody can reach the system without username and password, private key, secret token etc. Words below are so obvious that I feel stupid for writing them. But anyway it’s a very important entry into my today post – how to create credentials in Jenkins. Because even Jenkins has to use credentials in its projects and builds. If you have ever used Jenkins, you probably know that you can pass username and password as a Continue reading