I have Jenkins set up on MacOS and want to execute commands that are installed on my user (e.g. Ruby, cucumber). Unfortunately, Jenkins does not use Environment vars of current user, so all installed programs does not work correctly (such as Ruby, and its dependencies).
For example, for Ruby and Cucumber I have to manually specify all necessary envs vars, including the $PATH
Is there a correct way to use current user environment without manual ENV set up or EnvInject plugin or the environment {} block in jenkinsfile?
I want that all vars user environment and system environment variables would be accessible in Jenkins job without manual updating of environment every time I install new package
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I'm working on automating deployment for dev and prod with sqoop jobs that have to be scped onto specific servers for each type. With these jobs, the scripts associated for each sqoop job needs to change based on dev vs prod. Currently, I have a git repo containing a dev and prod folder where approved dev changes are put onto the prod folder but with the variables (references to dev database vs prod database) changed. Then I have two jenkins pipelines that associate with each and have independent triggers. This is incredibly hacky.
My current plan is to consolidate into a single folder and replace all the variables with a pseudo variable such as %DBPREFIX% and then having each associated pipeline regex and replace all matches with its associated database prefix on compilation.
The files that need to be changed are shell scripts and hive scripts, so I can't just define a environment variable within the Jenkins node shell.
Is there a better way to handle this?
tl;dr: I need to set variables in different files that can be automatically changed through a jenkins pipeline.
You can actually reference environment variables in shell scripts and in hive scripts.
in a shell script to reference $HOT_VAR:
echo $HOT_VAR
in a hive script to reference $HOT_VAR:
select * from foo where day >= '${env:HOT_VAR}'
i'm not sure if that is an example of a hive script. maybe you want to see https://stackoverflow.com/a/12485751/6090676. :)
if you are really unable to use environment variables for some reason, you could use command line tools like awk, sed, or perl (why do people always suggest perl instead of ruby?) to search and replace in the files you need to configure (based on environment variables, probably).
I am running Jenkins though the docker image.
I want my Jenkins Installation to come up with few pre configured enviroment variables.
Is there any way I can copy some of my environment variables, so that when I bring my jenkins up, it should come with these pre-configured environment variables ?
Or
Where are the environment variables stored in the Jenkins installation ?
TIA.
I'm looking for a way to create a properties file that will include all environment variables of my application. The idea is to create a file when deploying with jenkins and then use a script to populate the env vars in the AWS instance that the deployment takes place via a codedeploy hook.
What I want to simulate is the heroku experience, where there is a screen with all the env vars as key-value pairs. Is there such a plugin? Right now I'm using a shell script to create the file by echoing the key-value pairs, which works just fine, but I'd prefer something more user friendly.
Have a look at this ENVINJECT plugin this might suit your requirement
I am trying to override TMPDIR for builds kicked off on one of my nodes.
I've added a new value in the node properties environment variables:
But when I run my job, TMPDIR is still set to the system value. ZIG does get set, however:
# Output from job running `env`
TMPDIR=/var/folders/nf/p0pz9cv93wz8m314wyk3yp_h0000gn/T/
ZIG=Zag
The same thing happens if I add the environment settings to the Jenkins master config. I can successfully use the EnvInject Plugin to change it on each job, but we have a number of jobs and I would really prefer that it be a node configuration (the node has a dedicated build drive).
How can I override TMPDIR for all builds launched on this node?
I am using Jenkins 1.624 on OS X Yosemite 10.10.5.
I had the EnvInject plugin installed, which was preventing the environment variables from being overridden (even though I wasn't using it, and it didn't work when I turned it on anyway).
I uninstalled that plugin and now my problem is gone.
I am making use of a batch script that is supposed to run on a slave node, which makes use of Sahi. The environment variable for Sahi is set as 'SAHI_HOME' on the node.
When I run the batch I figure out, it is not able to locate Sahi classes.
How do I enforce Jenkins to make use of environment variables set on the slave? I mean is there any way to fetch environment variables set on a slave node?
We got around this issue by installing and updating Sahi automatically. There is a nice Jenkins Plugin: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Custom+Tools+Plugin
You just need to place a Sahi Zip somewhere for Jenkis to access. The custom tool plugin automatically unpacks archives and creates a toolname_HOME environment variable.
Just name your tool SAHI and you have Sahi and $SAHI_HOME on every job and node you need.
Regards
Wormi
I ran into a similar issue with my AIX slaves. The issue is that the .profile file is not executed when a non-interactive shell is started. Therefore, you have several options.
Make sure that the environment variable is set in the environment file (in AIX, I can set the ENV variable to a filename that will be executed for both interactive and non-interactive shells.) I think the .kshrc file might qualify too.
Set the environment variable in the node configuration
set the environment variable in the master configuration
set the environment variable in the job (needs env inject plugin)
set the environment variable explicitly in the bash script