Jenkins and PATH

Question

I am using Jenkins and it runs a script that uses AWS command line tools. Because Jenkins doesn't use a shell like a normal user, it will fail saying "EC2_HOME" not set. Now I know how to set this for a regular user but not for Jenkins. Currently I have the EC2_HOME and keys exporting in my script that Jenkins uses but I don't feel comfortable having that info in my script.

How/where can I edit Jenkin's PATH to use the EC2 tools? I already edited /etc/profile. This was working until the server rebooted recently.

Answer 1

You should use Injecting Environment variable, so you can set up all env related variables and consisting across job

See more here at plugin doc: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/EnvInject+Plugin