Jenkins Pipeline uses rules identical to Groovy for string interpolation. Groovy’s String interpolation support can be confusing to many newcomers to the language. While Groovy supports declaring a string with either single quotes, or double quotes, for example:
def singlyQuoted = 'Hello'
def doublyQuoted = "World"
Only the latter string will support the dollar-sign ($) based string interpolation, for example:
def username = 'Jenkins'
echo 'Hello Mr. ${username}'
echo "I said, Hello Mr. ${username}"
This would result in:
Hello Mr. ${username}
I said, Hello Mr. Jenkins
Hence, to use $ sign interpolation in the Jenkins pipeline we must use a double quote String even though, it supports a single quote string.