GitLab CI environment variables

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I want to setup a CI/CD pipeline in GitLab.
In my testscript I need a password and a username that I don’t want to have in the repo.
Is it possible to use the GitLab environment variables to pass this to the script?

My idea is that I would access the GitLab environment variables and pass them to the Julia environment variables.

- echo $USERNAME
- julia --project=@. -e 'import Pkg;
            ENV["USERNAME"] = "$USERNAME";
            ENV["PASSWORD"] = "$PASSWORD";
            Pkg.test(; coverage = true);'

The echo works but I’m not able to use the variable in the Julia code.
I get the Julia error:

ERROR: UndefVarError: USERNAME not define

Thanks!

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If you export the variables in the shell you don’t need to set them in the Julia process. Your julia call fails because the command is single-quoted, which prevents shell variable interpolation, and "$USERNAME" does interpolation of the Julia variable USERNAME which is not set.

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Thank you!
I see; the GitLab CI variables can be directly accessed via ENV["USERNAME"] and ENV["PASSWORD"].