Environment variables

Woodpecker provides the ability to pass environment variables to individual pipeline steps. Example pipeline step with custom environment variables:

pipeline:
  build:
    image: golang
+   environment:
+     - CGO=0
+     - GOOS=linux
+     - GOARCH=amd64
    commands:
      - go build
      - go test

Please note that the environment section is not able to expand environment variables. If you need to expand variables they should be exported in the commands section.

pipeline:
  build:
    image: golang
-   environment:
-     - PATH=$PATH:/go
    commands:
+     - export PATH=$PATH:/go
      - go build
      - go test

Please be warned that ${variable} expressions are subject to pre-processing. If you do not want the pre-processor to evaluate your expression it must be escaped:

pipeline:
  build:
    image: golang
    commands:
-     - export PATH=${PATH}:/go
+     - export PATH=$${PATH}:/go
      - go build
      - go test

Built-in environment variables

This is the reference list of all environment variables available to your pipeline containers. These are injected into your pipeline step and plugins containers, at runtime.

NAME	Description
CI=woodpecker	environment is woodpecker
	Repository
CI_REPO	repository full name <owner>/<name>
CI_REPO_OWNER	repository owner
CI_REPO_NAME	repository name
CI_REPO_SCM	repository scm (git)
CI_REPO_LINK	repository link
CI_REPO_REMOTE	repository clone url
CI_REPO_DEFAULT_BRANCH	repository default branch (master)
CI_REPO_PRIVATE	repository is private
CI_REPO_TRUSTED	repository is trusted
	Current Commit
CI_COMMIT_SHA	commit sha
CI_COMMIT_REF	commit ref
CI_COMMIT_REFSPEC	commit ref spec
CI_COMMIT_BRANCH	commit branch (equals target branch for pull requests)
CI_COMMIT_SOURCE_BRANCH	commit source branch
CI_COMMIT_TARGET_BRANCH	commit target branch
CI_COMMIT_TAG	commit tag name (empty if event is not tag)
CI_COMMIT_PULL_REQUEST	commit pull request number (empty if event is not pull_request)
CI_COMMIT_LINK	commit link in remote
CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE	commit message
CI_COMMIT_AUTHOR	commit author username
CI_COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL	commit author email address
CI_COMMIT_AUTHOR_AVATAR	commit author avatar
	Current build
CI_BUILD_NUMBER	build number
CI_BUILD_PARENT	build number of parent build
CI_BUILD_EVENT	build event (push, pull_request, tag, deployment)
CI_BUILD_LINK	build link in ci
CI_BUILD_DEPLOY_TARGET	build deploy target for deployment events (ie production)
CI_BUILD_STATUS	build status (success, failure)
CI_BUILD_CREATED	build created unix timestamp
CI_BUILD_STARTED	build started unix timestamp
CI_BUILD_FINISHED	build finished unix timestamp
	Current job
CI_JOB_NUMBER	job number
CI_JOB_STATUS	job status (success, failure)
CI_JOB_STARTED	job started unix timestamp
CI_JOB_FINISHED	job finished unix timestamp
	Previous commit
CI_PREV_COMMIT_SHA	previous commit sha
CI_PREV_COMMIT_REF	previous commit ref
CI_PREV_COMMIT_REFSPEC	previous commit ref spec
CI_PREV_COMMIT_BRANCH	previous commit branch
CI_PREV_COMMIT_SOURCE_BRANCH	previous commit source branch
CI_PREV_COMMIT_TARGET_BRANCH	previous commit target branch
CI_PREV_COMMIT_LINK	previous commit link in remote
CI_PREV_COMMIT_MESSAGE	previous commit message
CI_PREV_COMMIT_AUTHOR	previous commit author username
CI_PREV_COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL	previous commit author email address
CI_PREV_COMMIT_AUTHOR_AVATAR	previous commit author avatar
	Previous build
CI_PREV_BUILD_NUMBER	previous build number
CI_PREV_BUILD_PARENT	previous build number of parent build
CI_PREV_BUILD_EVENT	previous build event (push, pull_request, tag, deployment)
CI_PREV_BUILD_LINK	previous build link in ci
CI_PREV_BUILD_DEPLOY_TARGET	previous build deploy target for deployment events (ie production)
CI_PREV_BUILD_STATUS	previous build status (success, failure)
CI_PREV_BUILD_CREATED	previous build created unix timestamp
CI_PREV_BUILD_STARTED	previous build started unix timestamp
CI_PREV_BUILD_FINISHED	previous build finished unix timestamp
CI_WORKSPACE	Path of the workspace where source code gets cloned to
	System
CI_SYSTEM_NAME	name of the ci system: woodpecker
CI_SYSTEM_LINK	link to ci system
CI_SYSTEM_HOST	hostname of ci server
CI_SYSTEM_VERSION	version of the server
	Internal - Please don't use!
CI_SCRIPT	Internal script path. Used to call pipeline step commands.
CI_NETRC_USERNAME	Credentials for private repos to be able to clone data. (Only available for specific images)
CI_NETRC_PASSWORD	Credentials for private repos to be able to clone data. (Only available for specific images)
CI_NETRC_MACHINE	Credentials for private repos to be able to clone data. (Only available for specific images)

Global environment variables

If you want specific environment variables to be available in all of your builds use the WOODPECKER_ENVIRONMENT setting on the Woodpecker server.

services:
  woodpecker-server:
    [...]
    environment:
      - [...]
+     - WOODPECKER_ENVIRONMENT=first_var:value1,second_var:value2

String Substitution

Woodpecker provides the ability to substitute environment variables at runtime. This gives us the ability to use dynamic build or commit details in our pipeline configuration.

Example commit substitution:

pipeline:
  docker:
    image: plugins/docker
    settings:
+     tags: ${CI_COMMIT_SHA}

Example tag substitution:

pipeline:
  docker:
    image: plugins/docker
    settings:
+     tags: ${CI_COMMIT_TAG}

String Operations

Woodpecker also emulates bash string operations. This gives us the ability to manipulate the strings prior to substitution. Example use cases might include substring and stripping prefix or suffix values.

OPERATION	DESC
${param}	parameter substitution
${param,}	parameter substitution with lowercase first char
${param,,}	parameter substitution with lowercase
${param^}	parameter substitution with uppercase first char
${param^^}	parameter substitution with uppercase
${param:pos}	parameter substitution with substring
${param:pos:len}	parameter substitution with substring and length
${param=default}	parameter substitution with default
${param##prefix}	parameter substitution with prefix removal
${param%%suffix}	parameter substitution with suffix removal
${param/old/new}	parameter substitution with find and replace

Example variable substitution with substring:

pipeline:
  docker:
    image: plugins/docker
    settings:
+     tags: ${CI_COMMIT_SHA:0:8}

Example variable substitution strips v prefix from v.1.0.0:

pipeline:
  docker:
    image: plugins/docker
    settings:
+     tags: ${CI_COMMIT_TAG##v}