Creating a new Node on Jenkins with SSH Credentials

[devrajshetake]

I am trying to remotely create an jenkins node with ssh credentials, is there a way to do that?
By default it provides only the following arguments, there are no arguments for host name, credential id etc.

node_setting = {
        'nodeDescription': '',
        'numExecutors': 1,
        'remoteFS': '/home/jenkins',
        'labelString': '',
        'mode': 'NORMAL',
        'retentionStrategy': {
            'stapler-class': 'hudson.slaves.RetentionStrategy$Always'
        },
        'nodeProperties': {'stapler-class-bag': 'true'},
        'launcher': {'stapler-class': 'hudson.slaves.JNLPLauncher'}
    }

I am using the the following code:

jenkins = Jenkins("hos_url", auth = (username, password))
jenkins.nodes.create("node_name",  **node_settings)

I want to add other attributes that are required to create a node with ssh credentials. I am not sure what keys and values should I add.

[joelee2012]

@devrajshetake it's a little complicated, you have to create ssh node in browser and inspect the request to get the supported attributes. for example, inspect request with default setting:

{
  "name": "test",
  "nodeDescription": "",
  "": [
    "",
    "hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher",
    "0"
  ],
  "numExecutors": "1",
  "remoteFS": "",
  "labelString": "",
  "mode": "NORMAL",
  "launcher": {
    "oldCommand": "",
    "stapler-class": "hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher",
    "$class": "hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher",
    **"host": "<some-ssh-node-address>",**
    "includeUser": "false",
    **"credentialsId": "<some-ssh-key-credential-id>",**
    "": "0",
    "sshHostKeyVerificationStrategy": {
      "stapler-class": "hudson.plugins.sshslaves.verifiers.KnownHostsFileKeyVerificationStrategy",
      "$class": "hudson.plugins.sshslaves.verifiers.KnownHostsFileKeyVerificationStrategy"
    },
    "port": "22",
    "javaPath": "",
    "jvmOptions": "",
    "prefixStartSlaveCmd": "",
    "suffixStartSlaveCmd": "",
    "launchTimeoutSeconds": "",
    "maxNumRetries": "",
    "retryWaitTime": "",
    "tcpNoDelay": true,
    "workDir": ""
  },
  "retentionStrategy": {
    "stapler-class": "hudson.slaves.RetentionStrategy$Always",
    "$class": "hudson.slaves.RetentionStrategy$Always"
  },
  "nodeProperties": {
    "stapler-class-bag": "true"
  },
  "type": "hudson.slaves.DumbSlave",
  "Submit": "",
  "Jenkins-Crumb": "5b0dc43b1a9f3d975164478c572906e33b3e109a77609a44cb9dcf8e4b4d82a9"
}

[devrajshetake]

@joelee2012 thanks for your help. I would like to work on providing a simpler and more intuitive method for users to create nodes using SSHLauncher, should I create an issue regarding it.

[joelee2012]

That is great and welcome to create PR