If you have created variables in gitlab CI/CD setting, here is how you can access it in your gitlab-ci pipeline. In the above example, the variable has following settings Type: File Key: DB_ACCESS_URL Value: jdbc:oracle:thin:@myoracle.db.server:1521:my_sid To access this in your pipeline , gitlab provides 2 ways echo $Key will give the file path cat $Key … Continue reading How to read variable set as File type in gitlab-ci.yml ?