This page explains how settings can be passed to Cake file.

Passing And Reading Arguments

Call the Argument alias in your Cake file to read arguments from the command line:

Argument<bool>("myargument", false);

The argument can be passed while running Cake:

--myargument=true

Reading Environment Variables

Call the Environment variables alias alias in your Cake file to get the environment variable.

The following example will read the value of the BUILD_NUMBER environment variable or return 42 if the environment variable is not defined:

Information(EnvironmentVariable<int>("BUILD_NUMBER", 42));