SSH Pipeline Steps
Jenkins pipeline steps which provides SSH facilities such as command execution or file transfer for continuous delivery. It internally uses the library of Groovy SSH.
Read more about the YAML extension of this plugin at this blog post
Configuration
Remote
Most of the steps in this plugin require a common step variable called remote
, which is Map of remote node settings such as user name, password and so on. Here is list of all possible keys that can be set.
Key | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
name |
String, Mandatory |
Remote name, usually this is same as host name. |
host |
String, Mandatory |
Hostname or IP address of the remote host. |
port |
int |
Port. Defaults to port |
user |
String, Mandatory |
User name. |
allowAnyHosts |
boolean |
If this is |
knownHosts |
String, Mandatory |
Known hosts file for host key checking. |
password |
String, one of password, identity or identityFile is required |
Password for password authentication. |
identity |
String, one of password, identity or identityFile is required |
Private key for public-key authentication. |
identityFile |
String, one of password, identity or identityFile is required |
Private key file name for public-key authentication. |
passphrase |
String |
Pass-phrase for the private key. |
agent |
boolean |
If this is |
timeoutSec |
int |
Connection timeout and socket read timeout. Defaults to 0 (OS default). |
retryCount |
int |
Retry count to establish connection. Defaults to 0 (no retry). |
retryWaitSec |
int |
Interval time between each retries. Defaults to 0 (immediately). |
keepAliveSec |
int |
Interval time of keep alive messages sent to the remote host. Defaults to 60 seconds. |
agentForwarding |
boolean |
If this is |
fileTransfer |
String |
File transfer method, that is |
encoding |
String |
Encoding of input and output on the command or shell execution. Defaults to |
proxy |
Proxy, refer below. |
If this is set, the proxy server is used to reach the remote host. Defaults to no proxy. |
gateway |
Remote |
Gateway remote host. If this is set, the port-forwarding tunnel is used to reach the remote host. Defaults to no gateway. |
appendName |
boolean |
If this is |
logLevel |
String |
Defaults to SEVERE Possible values, refer to java logging levels
|
pty |
boolean |
If this is true, a PTY (pseudo-terminal) is allocated on the command execution. Defaults to |
Proxy
Key | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
name |
String, Mandatory |
Proxy name |
host |
String, Mandatory |
Hostname or IP address of the proxy server. |
port |
int, Mandatory |
Port of the proxy server. |
type |
String, Mandatory |
Type of the proxy server: |
user |
String |
User name of the proxy server. |
password |
String |
Password of the proxy server. |
socksVersion |
int |
Protocol version when using |
Pipeline Steps
The following pipeline steps are available with the initial version of this plugin.
sshCommand
This step executes given command on remote node and responds with output.
Input
Key | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
remote |
Remote, Mandatory, Refer to the Remote config for more details. |
Host config to run the command on. |
command |
String, Mandatory |
Shell command to run. Appending sudo is optional when |
sudo |
boolean, default: |
Interactively supplies the password, not required for password less sudo commands. |
failOnError |
boolean, default: |
If this is |
dryRun |
boolean, default: |
If this is true, no actual connection or operation is performed. |
Example
node {
def remote = [:]
remote.name = 'test'
remote.host = 'test.domain.com'
remote.user = 'root'
remote.password = 'password'
remote.allowAnyHosts = true
stage('Remote SSH') {
sshCommand remote: remote, command: "ls -lrt"
sshCommand remote: remote, command: "for i in {1..5}; do echo -n \"Loop \$i \"; date ; sleep 1; done"
}
}
sshScript
This step executes given script(file) on remote node and responds with output.
Input
Key | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
remote |
Remote, Mandatory, Refer to the Remote config for more details. |
Host config to run the command on. |
script |
String, Mandatory |
Script file name from the workspace, current this doesn’t support script with arguments. For that option you would need to copy over the file to remote node and run it as a command. |
failOnError |
boolean, default: |
If this is |
dryRun |
boolean, default: |
If this is true, no actual connection or operation is performed. |
Example
node {
def remote = [:]
remote.name = 'test'
remote.host = 'test.domain.com'
remote.user = 'root'
remote.password = 'password'
remote.allowAnyHosts = true
stage('Remote SSH') {
writeFile file: 'abc.sh', text: 'ls -lrt'
sshScript remote: remote, script: "abc.sh"
}
}
sshPut
Put a file or directory into the remote host.
Input
Key | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
remote |
Remote, Mandatory, Refer to the Remote config for more details. |
Host config to run the command on. |
from |
String, Mandatory |
file or directory path from the workspace. |
into |
String, Mandatory |
file or directory path on the remote node. |
filterBy |
String, Optional, Defaults to |
Put files by a file filter. Possible values are params on the java File object. |
filterRegex |
String, Optional. |
Put files by a file regex (Groovy syntax). Example: /\.xml$/ - Puts all xml files. |
failOnError |
boolean, default: |
If this is |
dryRun |
boolean, default: |
If this is true, no actual connection or operation is performed. |
Example
node {
def remote = [:]
remote.name = 'test'
remote.host = 'test.domain.com'
remote.user = 'root'
remote.password = 'password'
remote.allowAnyHosts = true
stage('Remote SSH') {
writeFile file: 'abc.sh', text: 'ls -lrt'
sshPut remote: remote, from: 'abc.sh', into: '.'
}
}
sshGet
Get a file or directory from the remote host.
Input
Key | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
remote |
Remote, Mandatory, Refer to the Remote config for more details. |
Host config to run the command on. |
from |
String, Mandatory |
file or directory path from the remote node. |
into |
String, Mandatory |
file or directory path on current workspace. |
filterBy |
String, Optional, Defaults to |
Get files by a file filter. Possible values are params on the java File object. |
filterRegex |
String, Optional. |
Get files by a file regex (Groovy syntax). Example: /\.xml$/ - Gets all xml files. |
failOnError |
boolean, default: |
If this is |
dryRun |
boolean, default: |
If this is true, no actual connection or operation is performed. |
Example
node {
def remote = [:]
remote.name = 'test'
remote.host = 'test.domain.com'
remote.user = 'root'
remote.password = 'password'
remote.allowAnyHosts = true
stage('Remote SSH') {
sshGet remote: remote, from: 'abc.sh', into: 'abc_get.sh', override: true
}
}
sshRemove
Remove a file or directory on the remote host.
Input
Key | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
remote |
Remote, Mandatory, Refer to the Remote config for more details. |
Host config to run the command on. |
path |
String, Mandatory |
file or directory path on the remote node |
failOnError |
boolean, default: |
If this is |
dryRun |
boolean, default: |
If this is true, no actual connection or operation is performed. |
Example
node {
def remote = [:]
remote.name = 'test'
remote.host = 'test.domain.com'
remote.user = 'root'
remote.password = 'password'
remote.allowAnyHosts = true
stage('Remote SSH') {
sshRemove remote: remote, path: "abc.sh"
}
}
Examples
withCredentials
An example how these steps can leverage withCredentials
to read private key from Jenkins credentials store.
def remote = [:]
remote.name = "node-1"
remote.host = "10.000.000.153"
remote.allowAnyHosts = true
node {
withCredentials([sshUserPrivateKey(credentialsId: 'sshUser', keyFileVariable: 'identity', passphraseVariable: '', usernameVariable: 'userName')]) {
remote.user = userName
remote.identityFile = identity
stage("SSH Steps Rocks!") {
writeFile file: 'abc.sh', text: 'ls'
sshCommand remote: remote, command: 'for i in {1..5}; do echo -n \"Loop \$i \"; date ; sleep 1; done'
sshPut remote: remote, from: 'abc.sh', into: '.'
sshGet remote: remote, from: 'abc.sh', into: 'bac.sh', override: true
sshScript remote: remote, script: 'abc.sh'
sshRemove remote: remote, path: 'abc.sh'
}
}
}
Maintainers
Disclaimer
Please don’t hesitate to log a JIRA or github pull request if you need any help or if you can be of help with this plugin :). Refer to the contribution guide for more information.
License
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