How to use a custom ssh key location with Spring Cloud Config

Question

I am trying to setup a Spring Cloud Config server that uses a custom location for the ssh private key. The reason i need to specify a custom location for the key is because the

Answer 1

I am having a similar problem because my default SSH key is encrypted with a password and therefore doesn't "just work", which makes sense because this is a head-less setup.

I went source-diving into Spring Cloud Config, org.eclipse.jgit and eventually ended up in com.jcraft.jsch. The short answer is that neither JGit nor Spring Cloud expose an obvious way to do this.

JSch clearly supports this feature within a JSch() instance, but you can't get at it from the Spring Cloud level. At least not that I could find in a hour or so of looking.