How to use secret keys with pipelines?

Moe Han October 13, 2016

Hello,

In my repo, I have a `keys.py` file which I do not commit to Bitbucket. Inside that, I have AWS_SECRET and etc.

Then I do like `keys.AWS_SECRET` to access those keys.

How do I do that so that I can still test using pipelines without changing much to my codebase?

 

Thanks.

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Steven Vaccarella
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October 16, 2016

I had added this as a comment to Philip's answer, but the code sections don't seem to display correctly in a comment.

If you really want to minimise the changes to your code you could try putting your entire "keys.py" file into a single secure variable by base64-encoding it.

base64 < keys.py

Paste the output of that command into the value of a secure variable named "KEYS_PY" and then in your bitbucket-pipelines.yml script:

echo $KEYS_PY | base64 --decode > keys.py

This may or may not work depending on how large "keys.py" is.

 

Peter Havenga August 1, 2017

In my case this was needed:

echo "$KEYS_PY" | base64 --decode &gt; keys.py

(including " ").

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arvinds January 3, 2020

For binary files like P12 how it can be stored? 

argentum47 May 17, 2021

Hi Arvinds,

 

Were you able to how P12 files can be stored using secrets?

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Philip Hodder
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October 13, 2016

Hi Moe,

You can use a secured environment variable for to achieve this. 

Variables in pipelines - Atlassian Documentation

The variable value will be masked from all log output if you mark it as a "secured" variable on creation. 

By the sounds of it, the only thing you will have to change is that you read in these values as an environment variable, instead of from a file. 

Thanks. 

Olve Hansen May 25, 2019

Link is dead

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Daniel Santos
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May 27, 2019

The link is now fixed, thank you for pointing that out @Olve Hansen

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