Credentials plugin for secrets in Jenkins - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to use the Jenkins Credentials plugin to retrieve a secret text.

Jenkins

def secret = com.cloudbees.plugins.credentials.CredentialsProvider.findCredentialById('[1]', com.cloudbees.plugins.credentials.common.UsernamePasswordCredentials.class, Jenkins.instance)

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Amy-secret-id

Bsecret-text

Ccredentials-id

Dpassword

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3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using the secret value instead of the credential ID

Using an incorrect class type

The findCredentialById method requires the ID of the stored secret. Here, my-secret-id is the correct ID placeholder.

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medium

Complete the code to access the secret text value from the credentials object.

Jenkins

def secretText = secret.[1]()

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AgetSecret

BgetPlainText

CgetPassword

DgetSecretText

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Common Mistakes

Using a method that does not exist

Confusing with other getter methods

The getPassword() method returns the secret text stored in the credentials object.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to correctly retrieve credentials in a Jenkins pipeline script.

Jenkins

withCredentials([string(credentialsId: '[1]', variable: 'SECRET')]) {
  echo "Secret is $SECRET"
}

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Amy-secret-id

Bsecret-id

Ccredentials

Dmy-secret

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Common Mistakes

Using a wrong or partial ID

Using the variable name instead of the ID

The credentialsId must exactly match the ID of the stored secret, here my-secret-id.

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hard

Fill both blanks to define a credentials binding for username and password in a Jenkins pipeline.

Jenkins

withCredentials([usernamePassword(credentialsId: '[1]', usernameVariable: '[2]', passwordVariable: 'PASSWORD')]) {
  echo "User is $USERNAME"
}

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Auser-pass-id

BUSERNAME

CUSER

Dpassword

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using wrong variable names

Mixing up username and password variables

The credentialsId is the ID of the username-password credential. The usernameVariable must match the variable used in the script, here USERNAME.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a map of secrets filtered by a condition using Jenkins credentials in Groovy.

Jenkins

def secretsMap = credentials.findAll { cred -> cred.id.[3]('prod') }.collectEntries { cred -> [[1], [2]] }

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Acred.id

Bcred.getPassword().getPlainText()

CstartsWith

Dcontains

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using wrong property names

Using incorrect string method for filtering

The map uses cred.id as keys and cred.getPassword().getPlainText() as values. The filter uses contains to select credentials with 'prod' in their ID.