Chapter 1. Adding secrets to Jenkins for secure integration with external tools

Procedure

1. Open your Jenkins instance in a web browser and log in with your admin credentials.
2. Select on your username at the top right corner of the Jenkins dashboard.
3. From the left sidebar, select Credentials.
4. Choose the appropriate domain where you want to add the credentials. Typically, it’s Global credentials (unrestricted).
5. Select Add Credentials.
6. From the Kind drop-down list, select Secret text.
7. Keep the default value in the Scope drop-down list as Global (Jenkins).
8. In the Secret field, enter your ACS API token.
9. In the ID field, enter ROX_API_TOKEN.
10. In the Description field, enter an appropriate description for the credentials.

11. Repeat steps 5-10 for the following credentials:

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    Variable	Description
    Provide image registry credentials for only one image registry.
    QUAY_IO_CREDS_USR	Username for accessing Quay.io repository.
    QUAY_IO_CREDS_PSW	Password for accessing Quay.io repository.
    ARTIFACTORY_IO_CREDS_USR	Username for accessing JFrog Artifactory repository.
    ARTIFACTORY_IO_CREDS_PSW	Password for accessing JFrog Artifactory repository.
    NEXUS_IO_CREDS_USR	Username for accessing Sonatype Nexus repository.
    NEXUS_IO_CREDS_PSW	Password for accessing Sonatype Nexus repository.
    Set these variables if Jenkins runs on a non-local OpenShift instance, and the Rekor and TUF services are on different clusters.
    REKOR_HOST	URL of your Rekor server.
    TUF_MIRROR	URL of your TUF service.
    GitOps configuration for Jenkins
    GITOPS_AUTH_PASSWORD	The token the system uses to update the GitOps repository for newly built images.
    GITOPS_AUTH_USERNAME (optional)	The parameter required for Jenkins to work with GitLab. You also need to uncomment a line with this parameter in a Jenkinsfile: GITOPS_AUTH_USERNAME = credentials('GITOPS_AUTH_USERNAME'). By default, this line is commented out.
    Variable required for ACS tasks.
    ROX_CENTRAL_ENDPOINT	Endpoint for the ROX Central server.
    ROX_API_TOKEN	API token for accessing the ROX server.
    Variables required for SBOM tasks.
    COSIGN_SECRET_PASSWORD	Password for Cosign signing key.
    COSIGN_SECRET_KEY	Private key for Cosign.
    COSIGN_PUBLIC_KEY	Public key for Cosign.
    TRUSTIFICATION_BOMBASTIC_API_URL	URL for Trustification Bombastic API used in SBOM generation.
    TRUSTIFICATION_OIDC_ISSUER_URL	OIDC issuer URL used for authentication when interacting with the Trustification Bombastic API.
    TRUSTIFICATION_OIDC_CLIENT_ID	Client ID for authenticating to the Trustification Bombastic API using OIDC.
    TRUSTIFICATION_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET	Client secret used alongside the client ID to authenticate to the Trustification Bombastic API.
    TRUSTIFICATION_SUPPORTED_CYCLONEDX_VERSION	Specifies the CycloneDX SBOM version that is supported and generated by the system.

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12. Rerun the last pipeline run.

    1. Alternatively, switch to you application’s source repository in GitHub, make a minor change, and commit it to trigger a new pipeline run.