How to use secrets in code as variables in pipeline?

Vladimir Parlikj

Hello guys, I am using Selenium with Java Maven for automation UI testing. In the photo bellow I use username/password from .env file and is working perfectly fine locally.

My question is how and is it possible to setup TEST_USERNAME and TEST_PASSWORD as variables in Bitbucket and use them during the pipeline?

 

Theodora Boudale

Hi @Vladimir Parlikj and welcome to the community!

You can define Pipelines variables
- either for a workspace (they can be used by all repos in that workspace)
- or for a repository (they can be used in that repo only)
- or as deployment variables (they can be used only in a deployment step of that specific deployment)

You can see more details here:

• https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/variables-and-secrets/#User-defined-variables

If you define a variable named TEST_USERNAME, then you can reference it in a file as ${TEST_USERNAME}

If you don't want to make use of Pipelines variables and you want to use the .env file you have, then you can

- commit the .env file in the repo (if it's not part of the repo already)
- source it at the beginning of the build, e.g. if the file is named build.env

source build.env

- you can then reference the variable the same way, as ${TEST_USERNAME}

Is this something that works for you? Or do you perhaps have some different/additional requirements?

Kind regards,
Theodora