Bitbucket is injecting environment variable into my values.yaml file

Quintonn Rothmann

I have a values.yaml file that I use in a helm command in my bitbucket pipeline.

I created a custom pipeline that I run manually.

Below are the beginning parts of my pipeline:

- step: &deploy-my-project

        name: Deploy My Project

        image: ubuntu:latest

        services:

          - docker

        caches:

          - node

          - docker

          - apt

        script:

          - cat "account-setup/scripts/argocd/values.yaml"

At this point, all instances of the word "password" in the file have been replaced with one of my environment variables.

An example:
this:

abc.password.value: "put something here" #TODO remove

Has been replaced with this:
abc.$MY_ADMIN_PASSWORD.value: "put something here" #TODO remove

Why is this happening?
How do I fix this?

I have tried changing the name of the file and that hasn't helped.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

Ben

Hey Quintonn,

The environment variable will be injected if you have a secured variable that contains this value to obscure it from view.

For example, say you have a secured variable called $TEST with a value of "helloworld", if you then reference helloworld in plaintext in your configuration - it will automatically insert $TEST as a placeholder to prevent this value from being exposed.

Please review your $MY_ADMIN_PASSWORD variable - you can test by deleting it or changing the value to something completely different to see if it is still inserted when you enter "password". 

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)