Git SSH Key via environment variable

[leo-schick]

I have some private repositories as dependend packages for my dbt project as described in the dbt documentation here.

I need a way to add a private SSH key for private repositories via an environment variable.

Sample solution:

Add a default ~/.ssh/config:

Host github.com
    HostName github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id

Add the following commands to the dockerfile:

RUN echo "$DBT_ACTION_GIT_SSH_KEY" > ~/.ssh/id
RUN chmod 0600 ~/.ssh/id
RUN ssh-keyscan -H github.com >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts

*not tested

[leo-schick]

I tried myself to make this work, but was not able to do so.

I switched now from git ssh packages over to use HTTPS with Git Token Method for authentication as workaround. It works quite well.