Load a Jenkins Pipeline Shared Library from a git repository

2 min read

To load a specific Jenkins Pipeline Shared Library we can use the @Library() function, but the library needs to be configured on Jenkins:

@Library('demo-shared-library') _

This is particularly annoying if:

• We don't have admin access to Jenkins (so we might need to request every single change)
• We need to test several libraries, so we would need to configure every single library we want to test

13/01/2022

Encode and decode passwords and other Jenkins settings

1 min read

On the Jenkins configuration files and the credentials.xml we can find some encoded strings, like usernames and passwords. We can use the Jenkins itself to decode them

17/11/2021