Bamboo variables

${bamboo.variableName}

Build-specific variables

The following build-specific variables are available by default:

System variables also apply across your entire Bamboo instance and inherit their values from system or environment variables of the same name.

Build dependent variables

The following build dependent variables are also available:

Deployment variables

You can generate variables of your own, using a similar format, however you cannot create a variable that is already in use by Bamboo. See Variables for deployment environments for more information on configuring your deployment environment variables.

Variables associated with releases

Bamboo makes the following types of variables available for deployment releases:

• Snapshots of values for global variables.
• Snapshots of values for plan variables.
• The autogenerated release variables in the following table:

In the variable names in the table above, <position> is the repository in the plan's repository list. It can be ignored for the first repository on the list; that is planRepository.name is equivalent to planRepository.1.name.

Note that several of the variables in the above table are actually those associated with the build plan.

System variables

The usage format for all system variables is:

${system.<variable>}

For example, if you have a system variable MYPATH=C:\MyPath; you can use a Bamboo system variable system.MYPATH which will inherit the same value as the system variable.

 In older Bamboo versions using 'PATH' in the Environment Variables field (of a Script task) doesn't set the windows PATH variable, whereas using 'Path' sets Path and PATH in cmd shell.

Using variables in bash

Bamboo variables are exported as bash shell variables. All full stops (periods) are converted to underscores. For example, the variable bamboo.my.variable is $bamboo_my_variable in bash. This is related to File Script tasks (not Inline Script tasks).

JIRA applications variables

Note that these variables can be accessed from a Bamboo build only when that build was triggered by releasing a version in a JIRA application.

Examples

Maven examples

For example, you may want your Maven 2 version to be determined by Bamboo. In Maven 2 pom.xml you may have:

...
<groupId>com.atlassian.boo</groupId>
<artifactId>boo-test</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<version>1.1.${bambooBuildNumber}-SNAPSHOT</version>
...

You can then specify the following in the Goal field of your build plan:

clean package -DbambooBuildNumber=${bamboo.buildNumber}

When the command runs, Bamboo will replace the buildNumber with the actual number (e.g. 1102), which will be passed to the underlying Maven build to use. The command will then produce a jar that looks like this: boo-test-1.1.1102-SNAPSHOT.jar.

Ant examples

You can then specify the following in the Target field of your build plan:

-f build.xml -DbambooBuildNumber=${bamboo.buildNumber}

When the command runs, Bamboo will replace the buildNumber with the actual number (e.g. 1102), which will be passed to the underlying Ant build to use.

Specifying capabilities as variables

You can also specify a capability to be used in a similar way to a global variable.

The format of the capability should be as follows:

${bamboo.capability.<capability_key>}

For example,

If you click on a capability, the specific capability key will be contained in the URL.

Please note, the space characters in the URL will be replaced with '+' characters. We recommend that you do not use capability labels with space characters, if you wish to use them as variables. A possible solution for space characters is to format them with '${}' symbols, however, this does not work in all cases.

Using capabilities

Global and Build-Specific Variables can be used in a specific fields of your build plan, as specified above. For capabilities,

• System Capabilities are available to all of these fields, (i.e. global and build-specific).
• Agent Capabilities (i.e. agent-specific and shared/server capabilities) are available only to the build-specific fields. (i.e. not available to Repository URL, CVS Root or Branch name.)

For example,