How do I properly handle secrets with Bamboo 6.2 onwards

[Ishika Khanna]

In Bamboo versions which support Specs, how do I correctly handle secrets in my build plans? Storing them in plain text in the repository seems like bad practice.

[Boris Van Hardeveld]

@Ishika Khanna @leozilla @howt723 It seems like an identical question has been asked before at https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bamboo-questions/How-do-I-properly-handle-secrets-with-Bamboo-6-2-onwards/qaq-p/679896

Please have a look at the discussion over there. In particular, https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1221965 might interest you.

[leozilla]

I am using bambo 6.10 and have exactly the same question.

When naming them something like "password", "secret" bamboo does automatically treat them as secret data, which is good but you cannot access those values in script files which is a real problem.

One workaround is to inject them manually again via a InjectVariablesTask:

```

new ScriptTask()
        .inlineBody(format("echo 'dev_secret_access_key='${bamboo_aws_dev_secret_access_key} >> %s", AWS_PROPS_FILE)),
new InjectVariablesTask().path(AWS_PROPS_FILE).namespace("aws"),
new ScriptTask().inlineBody("rm " + AWS_PROPS_FILE)

This works but its very tedious and ugly.