Welcome to your interview.
The question is on your right: Secure Secrets in CI Pipelines. Take a moment with it first.
Talk your thinking through with me if you like - when you're confident, submit your answer and I'll grade it like a real screen (7/10 or better passes). Discussion and graded submissions share your five interviewer interactions, so spend them well.
You're reviewing how a CI/CD pipeline handles credentials, tokens, and runtime configuration before promoting it to wider use. The goal is to avoid exposing sensitive values in source control, logs, or build agents while keeping deployments repeatable across environments.
How do you handle secrets management and environment variables securely within a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline?