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jenkinsci/ssh-steps-plugin

SSH Pipeline Steps

Jenkins

Build License Wiki ssh steps plugin

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 22.

user

String, Mandatory

User name.

allowAnyHosts

boolean

If this is true, knownHosts is optional. Defaults to false.

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 true, Putty Agent or ssh-agent is used on authentication. Defaults to false.

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 true, the agent forwarding is requested on the command execution. Defaults to false.

fileTransfer

String

File transfer method, that is sftp or scp. Defaults to sftp.

encoding

String

Encoding of input and output on the command or shell execution. Defaults to UTF-8.

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 true, name is prefixed to each line in the log output. New format: name|log.

logLevel

String

Defaults to SEVERE

Possible values, refer to java logging levels

  • SEVERE (highest value)

  • WARNING

  • INFO

  • CONFIG

  • FINE

  • FINER

  • FINEST (lowest value)

pty

boolean

If this is true, a PTY (pseudo-terminal) is allocated on the command execution. Defaults to false.

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: SOCKS or HTTP.

user

String

User name of the proxy server.

password

String

Password of the proxy server.

socksVersion

int

Protocol version when using SOCKS: 4 or 5. Defaults to 5.

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 is true.

sudo

boolean, default: false.

Interactively supplies the password, not required for password less sudo commands.

sshCommand with sudo:true param also requires pty:true on remote config with this upgrade. (This is only applicable for few platforms like Linux so apply this accordingly.)

failOnError

boolean, default: true.

If this is false, no job failure would occur though there is an error while running the command.

dryRun

boolean, default: false

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: true.

If this is false, no job failure would occur though there is an error while running the command.

dryRun

boolean, default: false

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 name.

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: true.

If this is false, no job failure would occur though there is an error while running the command.

dryRun

boolean, default: false

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 name.

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: true.

If this is false, no job failure would occur though there is an error while running the command.

dryRun

boolean, default: false

If this is true, no actual connection or operation is performed.

Example

node {
  def remote = [:]
  remote.name = 'test'
  remote.host = 'test.domain.com'
  remote.fileTransfer = 'scp'
  remote.user = 'root'
  remote.password = 'password'
  remote.allowAnyHosts = true
  stage('Remote SSH') {
    sshGet remote: remote, from: 'abc.sh', into: 'abc_get.sh', override: true
  }
  stage('Retrieve files with regex') {
    def regexPattern = ".+\\.(log|csv)\$"
    sshGet remote: remote, from: '/home/jenkins/', filterRegex: regexPattern, into: 'tests/', 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: true.

If this is false, no job failure would occur though there is an error while running the command.

dryRun

boolean, default: false

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'
        }
    }
}

Classic View:

ExampleWithCredentials

Blue Ocean View:

ExampleWithCredentialsBlueOcean

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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License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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