Currently the only way that a global.sbt can be added to an SBT install on jenkins to ssh onto the box and directly place it in the sbt install directory (normally a place like "JENKINS_HOME/data/.sbt/{sbtversion}". This is impractical however if the Jenkins is running in a kubernetes install.

The global sbt script normally handles essentials like setting the artifactory credentials and url logic (publishTo).

The maven plugin allows the ability to associate maven install(s) with a global settings.xml.

This ticket would enhance the sbt plugin to do something similar. (ie. associate an SBT install with a jenkins-managed global.sbt file).