Jenkins environment variables allow for flexible, secure management of configuration settings, credentials, and other dynamic values across CI/CD pipelines. This post covers how to set and use built-in, global, and local environment variables in Jenkins, including commands and scripts for different levels of variable scope. Additionally, it highlights best practices for managing sensitive information using the Credentials Plugin and provides examples of customizing pipelines with declarative and Groovy script-based approaches.
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1. Overriding environment variables using the global environment configuration2. Overriding variables in the environment block3. Overriding variables dynamically using the withEnv() functionSort: