CI

SSH to a server¶

• Create a public/private key pair on the remote instance
• Copy the private key as an env variable in Gitlab CI
• Use the following snippet to SSH:

  stages:
    - prepare
    - deploy
  
  default:
    image:
      name: public.ecr.aws/ubuntu/ubuntu:20.04
  
  .ssh-commands: &ssh-commands
    - apt-get -y update && apt-get install -y rsync
    - 'which ssh-agent || ( apt-get install -y openssh-client )'
    - eval $(ssh-agent -s)
    - echo "$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY" | tr -d '\r' | ssh-add -
    - mkdir -p ~/.ssh
    - chmod 700 ~/.ssh
  
  sync-deploy-scripts:
    before_script:
      - *ssh-commands
    stage: deploy
    script:
      - rsync --cvs-exclude -ravz -e "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null" ./ ubuntu@<remote_ip>:/home/ubuntu/app
    only:
      - main