chef-plugin

This is jenkins plugin to run chef-client on remote host

what it does

1. Connect to remote host with given ssh login using ssh public-key authentication schema.
2. Run chef-client on this host, optionally with chef json file generated from template.

features

• chef json file generated from custom ERB template
• ssh public-key authentication schema is used
• dry run mode

interface

chef json template

If you define one, chef json file will be generated based on this template.

• Check out chef wiki to get know about chef json files.

• This is ERB template, so you can use ERB syntax here:

   <%
       runlist = %w{foo bar baz}
       chef_json = { :run_list => runlist.map { |r|  "recipe[#{r}]" } }
   %>
   <%= chef_json.to_json.to_s %>
  

prerequisites

• ssh client

Environment set-up

You can set environment variables via "Jenkins/Configuration/Global properties/Environment variables" interface to adjust plugin behaviour.

LC_ALL

Setup your standard encoding.

ru_RU.UTF-8

download last stable release

[http://repo.jenkins-ci.org/snapshots/org/jenkins-ci/ruby-plugins/chef/0.0.4-SNAPSHOT/chef-0.0.4-20130920.073005-2.hpi]