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You can use the Bamboo SSH task to execute a SSH command on a remote computer as part of a Bamboo job.

You can use the SSH task to do such things as:

See Configuring a deployment task for an overview of Bamboo deployment tasks.

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To configure an SSH task:

Navigate to the Tasks configuration tab for the job (this will be the default job if creating a new plan).
Select the name of an existing SSH task, or select Add task > SSH Task to create a new task.

Complete SSH task configuration settings:

Setting	Description
Task description	Optional description for the configured task.
Disable this task	Prevent the task from running.
Add condition to task	Run the task only when a certain condition is met. Condition type (for SSH tasks, Variable is the only available option) Variable name (the name of the Bamboo variable to base the condition on) Condition (the conditional keyword): exists not exists equals (exact value) not equals (exact value) matches (regular expression to match variable value)
Host	Hostname or IP address of the remote host.
Authentication type	Choose whether Bamboo should authenticate with the host using a Username and password or SSH private key, and then either provide custom credentials or select shared credentials.
SSH command	The shell command to execute on the remote host. You can only enter a single command here. You can configure a remote host to accept build-specific variables sent from Bamboo as environment variables for use in shell scripts run by the SSH task.

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