Jenkins is a well known tool used in the DevOps world to automate processes. Typically, it's mostly used to build and deploy software as part of a CI/CD process, including cloning code from git, running a build job, running tests and deploying the resulting artifacts. However, Jenkins pipelines can be used to automate anything at all. Because of its built-in credentials manager, multi-node architecture and multitude of plugins, it can be worth it to centralize a lot of the repeated tasks you may have inside of Jenkins, rather than having scripts resting on a server somewhere. In this post we'll see how to use a Jenkins pipeline to connect to AWS and retrieve a list of S3 buckets available. Storing credentials The first thing you should do is securely store your credentials. One of the oldest security issue that IT people have had to deal with is the management of credentials. If you use a shell script to run your command, then you need credentials to be stored inside the script
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