How to Securely Store and Use Variables in GitLab Pipelines

GitLab is one of the most widely used version control and CI/CD platforms globally. When working with pipelines, we often need to use sensitive information such as passwords or SSH keys. To keep these secrets secure and out of source code, GitLab allows us to store them as environment variables, which can then be safely referenced within our pipeline scripts.

Objectives

• Set up variables in GitLab

Requirements

• A gitlab account

To create a gitlab account

• Login to you gitlab account

• Click on settings

• Click on CI/CD

• Click on variables

• Click on Add

• Type in the key (Name) and the value

• Click on Add variable