Export / Import

Exporting pipelines

1. To export configuration of all pipelines in the project, click the hamburger icon at the top and select Download YAML config. You can then manually select the pipelines to export or leave out:

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2. To export configuration of a single pipeline, select the option from the hamburger menu over the desired pipeline:

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Importing pipelines

To import your pipelines, go to the target project and select Import YAML config from the hamburger menu at the top:

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Buddy will ask you to provide the file with pipeline definitions and the decryption salt of the workspace where the pipelines were originally hosted:

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Managing secrets in exported YAML files

All sensitive data, such as passwords, is encrypted when you export pipelines. To decrypt the data, you need to provide the encryption salt – a random string used as an additional input in the hashing function.

The decryption salt is constant and unique for every workspace. When importing pipelines from another workspace, you need to know the salt of the pipeline's source workspace to decrypt the sensitive data.

Administrators and workspace owners can view the encryption salt in the Workspace Settings tab:

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