How to access secured repository variables in windows runner?

[Chris]

Hi!

When accessing repository variables in my windows runner pipeline via

$env:SOME_VAR 

everthing works EXCEPT when the variable is set to be "secured"! In that case the ENV is not set/empty!

How to access secured variables? Am i missing something or is this a bug?

[Mark C · Accepted solution]

Hi @Chris,

Thank you for reaching out to the community.

You can safely access secured variables by following the solutions mentioned in this knowledge-based article. - How to safely export secured variables in bitbucket pipelines

Regards,
Mark C

[Chris]

I can access all types of variables in our Linux runner, but with a Windows runner only "unsecured" aka normal variables work!

[Chris]

sorry, my bad! got it working now by additionally en-/decoding the secured values with base64