Use base64 files as secret file

[elena-kozyreva]

What feature do you want to see added?

Dear team,

I didn't find in documentation of the plugin how to use secret file as credential.
For example in local credentials we can save kube config file as Secret file encoding base64. But when I added the file to Azure KeyVault, Jenkins not able to read and use it.

Command for az cli:
az keyvault secret set --vault-name keyvaultforjenkins \ --name jenkins-kube-config --file kube-config \ --description "jenkins-kube-config" \ --encoding base64

Error in pipeline when it try to use the credential:
ERROR: Credentials 'jenkins-kube-config' is of type 'Secret text' where 'org.jenkinsci.plugins.plaincredentials.FileCredentials' was expected

Additional tag, for example of type the ID also didn't help:
--tags type=file

Could you please add support the such secret files?

Upstream changes

No response

[timja]

The plugin doesn't support file currently.

see https://github.com/jenkinsci/azure-keyvault-plugin#azure-key-vault-credentials-provider for the supported types (read down a little there's no heading for it)

you can always output the text to a file

[elena-kozyreva]

The plugin doesn't support file currently.

Thank you for quick response.
I hope that in the future you will be able to add file support. :)

[timja]

I hope that in the future you will be able to add file support. :)

or anyone else, pull requests are welcome