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I need to create a jenkins credential ( https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Credentials+Plugin ) via a script. How can I do that using either the REST API or the cli ?
Note that I'm able to list the credentials using /credential-store/domain//api/json and /credential-store/domain//credential/8bd82461-e239-4db1-90bc-831ca3412e70/api/json etc.
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From the Jenkins home page (i.e. the Dashboard of the Jenkins classic UI), click Manage Jenkins > Manage Credentials. Under Stores scoped to Jenkins on the right, click on Jenkins. Under System, click the Global credentials (unrestricted) link to access this default domain. Click Add Credentials on the left.
If your Jenkins server requires authentication (and it SHOULD), you'll see a message saying "Authentication Required". The Jenkins API uses HTTP BASIC authentication and requires a username as well as an API token to connect. Then click the box named "Show API Token", and copy the token to your clipboard.
The jenkins-rest library is an object oriented Java project that provides access to the Jenkins REST API programmatically to some remote API Jenkins provides. It is built using the jclouds toolkit and can easily be extended to support more REST endpoints.
This issue took me a while to figure, a lot of digging around, so I decided to let the solution here, if someone else needs it.
curl -X POST 'http://user:token@jenkins_server:8080/credentials/store/system/domain/_/createCredentials' \
--data-urlencode 'json={
"": "0",
"credentials": {
"scope": "GLOBAL",
"id": "identification",
"username": "manu",
"password": "bar",
"description": "linda",
"$class": "com.cloudbees.plugins.credentials.impl.UsernamePasswordCredentialsImpl"
}
}'
with latest jenkins you need a CRUMB to authenticate for this operation (ref https://stackoverflow.com/a/38314286)
CRUMB=$(curl -s 'http://user:token@jenkins_server:8080/crumbIssuer/api/xml?xpath=concat(//crumbRequestField,":",//crumb)')
curl -H $CRUMB -X POST 'http://user:token@jenkins_server:8080/credentials/store/system/domain/_/createCredentials' \
--data-urlencode 'json={
"": "0",
"credentials": {
"scope": "GLOBAL",
"id": "identification",
"username": "manu",
"password": "bar",
"description": "linda",
"$class": "com.cloudbees.plugins.credentials.impl.UsernamePasswordCredentialsImpl"
}
}'
Otherwise you get
<body><h2>HTTP ERROR 403</h2>
<p>Problem accessing /credentials/store/system/domain/_/createCredentials. Reason:
<pre> No valid crumb was included in the request</pre></p><hr><i><small>Powered by Jetty://</small></i><hr/>
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