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

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.

• chef json file generated from custom ERB template
• ssh public-key authentication schema is used
• optionally may be run in chef client in why run mode

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}]" } ,
           :name       => 'alexey',
           :language   => 'ruby'
       }
   %>
   <%= chef_json.to_json.to_s %>
  

• ruby-runtime jenkins plugin
• ssh client

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

Setup your standard encoding.

ru_RU.UTF-8

[http://repo.jenkins-ci.org/releases/org/jenkins-ci/ruby-plugins/chef/0.1.3/]