Variables

Environment variables available inside Pipelines

Environment Variables

The following tekton parameters and environment variables are available inside the pipeline catalog. They are populated by lighthouse

Variable Description
BUILD_ID a unique long number for this build
JOB_NAME the name of the build which matches the name in the presubmit or postsubmit in your lighthouse triggers.yaml
JOB_SPEC is of the form type:presumit or type:postsubmit so you know what kind of job you are inside
PULL_BASE_REF the base branch name. e.g. master or main
PULL_BASE_SHA the base git SHA being built
REPO_NAME the name of the git repository
REPO_OWNER the owner of the git repository (a user or organisation)
REPO_URL the git URL to clone the repository being built

Pull Requests presubmit also have the following values:

Variable Description
PULL_NUMBER the number of the pull request
PULL_PULL_REF the git reference of the pull request; something like refs/pull/123/head
PULL_PULL_SHA the git SHA of the pull request

Additional environment variables

If your pipeline runs the jx gitops variables command it will lazily create the .jx/variables.sh script which will default a bunch more environment variables if they are not already populated in your git repository.

NOTE that these variables are dynamically created during the execution of the pipeline pod; so to access them you must source .jx/variables.sh inside your step.

So that your step looks something like this…

- image: gcr.io/jenkinsxio/jx:latest
  name: my-step
  script: |
    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    source .jx/variables.sh
    echo "now we can use variables like this: ${VERSION}"

Available variables:

Variable Description
APP_NAME the name of the application which defaults to the $REPO_NAME
BRANCH_NAME is really the pull request name so something like PR-123
BUILD_NUMBER the human readable short build number relative to the repository and branch. So builds start at 1 and go up incrementally
DOMAIN the domain name for your ingress (from spec.ingress.domain in your jx-requirements.yml file)
GIT_BRANCH the real git branch being used (e.g. if on a Pull Request)
DOCKERFILE_PATH the location of the Dockerfile if it exists
DOCKER_REGISTRY the host name of the registry being used for image builds
DOCKER_REGISTRY_ORG the owner in the container registry (user name or organisation) to push images
JENKINS_X_URL the URL to view the current pipeline in the dashboard
JX_CHART_REPOSITORY the URL of the helm chart repository to use
NAMESPACE_SUB_DOMAIN the sub domain prefix added to $DOMAIN to create ingresses. e.g. myservice.${NAMESPACE_SUB_DOMAIN}${DOMAIN}
PIPELINE_KIND the kind of pipeline being run pullrequest or release
PUSH_CONTAINER_REGISTRY generally the same as DOCKER_REGISTRY but sometimes can be different (e.g. if using minikube/docker you could push to a local registry)
VERSION the version number used for releases (and used to tag images and git etc) or the preview version for pull requests

Additional Pull Request variables

Variable Description
PR_BASE_REF the git branch which a Pull Request pipeline will
PR_BASE_SHA the git sha which the Pull Request has been rebased on from the base branch the PR will merge to
PR_HEAD_REF the git branch of the source of the Pull Request
PR_HEAD_SHA the latest git sha of the Pull Request being processed
PR_LABEL_${LabelName} = ’true' where ${labelName} is the upper case name of the Pull Request label with any special character like - or / replaced by _ e.g. PR_LABEL_ENV_STAGING for the label env/staging

Pull Request variables from Comments

If you enable variables from Pull Request comments by modifying your .lighthouse/jenkins-x/pullrequest.yaml pipeline as follows:

        - name: jx-variables
          resources: {}
          script: |
            #!/usr/bin/env sh
            jx gitops variables
            jx gitops pr variables --comments

Then for any Pull Request comments lines like these:

/jx-var BEER=stella
/jx-var CHEESE = edam
/jx-var WITH_QUOTES = " some value "

You will get these variables added:

Variable
export PR_COMMENT_BEER=“stella”
export PR_COMMENT_CHEESE=“edam”
export PR_COMMENT_WITH_QUOTES=" some value "

If you want to define dynamic environment variables in one step for use in later steps you can append new variables to .jx/variables.sh and then add the source .jx/variables.sh later in your pipeline


Last modified August 11, 2021: fix: add PR comment variables docs (f3684809fc)