To properly integrate the CircleCI plugin, make sure to complete all four steps, as detailed in this article:

• Step 1: Enable CircleCI to Use 3rd Party Tools
• Step 2: Declare Colony in the CircleCI Config File
• Step 3: Define Required Environment Variables for Colony
• Step 4: Use Colony's Tasks in Your CircleCI Workflow

Step 1: Enable CircleCI to Use 3rd Party Tools

1. On the Settings > Security page for your organization, enable use of 3rd-party orbs.
2. If your project was added to CircleCI before version 2.1, on the Project Settings > Advanced Settings page, enable "pipelines" to use the orbs key.

Step 2: Declare Colony in the CircleCI Config File

1. Add a single line to your version 2.1 .circleci/config.yaml file:
   

   version: 2.1

2. Import the orbs key in your .circleci/yml/config.yml file.
3. Add the orbs stanza below your version, invoking the orb:
   

    orbs:
       cloudshell-colony: quali/cloudshell-colony@1.0.4  

Step 3: Define Required Environment Variables for Colony

1. While logged in to CircleCI, in a separate browser window In CloudShell Colony, open the Settings page and select Integrations. 
2. Under the CircleCI icon, select Connect.
3. Copy the automatically generated token value and return to the CircleCI browser window.
4. From your CircleCI dashboard, select Project Settings > Build Settings > Environment Variables.
5. Add the following Environment Variables:
   CS_COLONY_SERVER = The URL for the CloudShell Colony Server (https://cloudshellcolony.com)
   CS_COLONY_TOKEN = In CloudShell Colony, the automatically generated token from step 3
   CS_COLONY_SPACE = Your CloudShell Colony Space name

Step 4: Use Colony's Tasks in Your CircleCI Workflow

1. In the config.yml, declare the
   cloudshell-colony/start-sandbox and
   cloudshell-colony/end-sandbox 
   commands to start and stop the sandbox in Colony. Review examples here.
2. See the parameters list for orb behavior command customization here.

To learn more about how to work with the Colony Orb, check out this live code example on Github.