diff --git a/lib/producer/core.rb b/lib/producer/core.rb
index 18f75ea..267d797 100644
--- a/lib/producer/core.rb
+++ b/lib/producer/core.rb
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ require 'producer/core/interpreter'
 require 'producer/core/recipe'
 require 'producer/core/recipe/dsl'
 require 'producer/core/remote'
+require 'producer/core/remote/environment'
 require 'producer/core/task'
 require 'producer/core/task/dsl'
 require 'producer/core/version'
diff --git a/lib/producer/core/remote/environment.rb b/lib/producer/core/remote/environment.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f161ecb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/producer/core/remote/environment.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+module Producer
+  module Core
+    class Remote
+      class Environment
+        require 'forwardable'
+
+        extend Forwardable
+        def_delegator :@variables, :has_key?
+
+        def initialize(variables)
+          case variables
+          when String
+            @variables = parse_from_string variables
+          else
+            @variables = variables
+          end
+        end
+
+        private
+
+        def parse_from_string(str)
+          Hash[str.each_line.map { |l| l.chomp.split '=', 2 }]
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/spec/producer/core/remote/environment_spec.rb b/spec/producer/core/remote/environment_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..82b515a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/producer/core/remote/environment_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+require 'spec_helper'
+
+module Producer::Core
+  describe Remote::Environment do
+    let(:variables)       { { 'FOO' => 'bar', 'BAZ' => 'qux' } }
+    subject(:environment) { Remote::Environment.new(variables) }
+
+    describe '#initialize' do
+      context 'when a hash is given' do
+        it 'assigns the key/value pairs' do
+          expect(environment.instance_eval { @variables }).to eq variables
+        end
+      end
+
+      context 'when a string is given' do
+        subject(:environment) { Remote::Environment.new("FOO=bar\nBAZ=qux") }
+
+        it 'assigns the key/value pairs' do
+          expect(environment.instance_eval { @variables }).to eq variables
+        end
+      end
+    end
+
+    describe '#has_key?' do
+      let(:key) { 'SOME_KEY' }
+
+      it 'forwards the message to @variables' do
+        expect(environment.instance_eval { @variables })
+          .to receive(:has_key?).with(key)
+        environment.has_key? key
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end