How can I get jenkins-cli.jar to use my ssh agent/keychain?

Question

I\'m using the jenkins-cli.jar file from my jenkins server, and on every run it prompts me for my ssh key passphrase. I\'d like it to use my ssh keychain so I don\'t have to ent

Answer 1

Jenkins CLI client does not support SSH agents for now.

As a workaround, you can generate dedicated key without passphrase, associate it with your Jenkins account and instruct client to use that key on every invocation.