How to export credentials from one jenkins instance to another?

Question

I am using the credentials plugin in Jenkins to manage credentials for git and database access for my team\'s builds. I would like to copy the credentials from one jenkins i

Answer 1

This is what worked for me.

Create a job in Jenkins that takes the credentials and writes them to output. If Jenkins replaces the password in the output with ****, just obfuscate it first (add a space between each character, reverse the characters, base64 encode it, etc.)

I used a Powershell job to base64 encode it:

[convert]::ToBase64String([text.encoding]::Default.GetBytes($mysecret))

And then used Powershell to convert the base64 string back to a regular string:

[text.encoding]::Default.GetString([convert]::FromBase64String("bXlzZWNyZXQ="))