Gitlab - failed to authenticate remote server for CI and CD build

Question

I am getting \"Enter passphrase for /dev/fd/63\" error when my \".gitlab-ci.yml\" tries to remote to my Ubuntu server for executing SSH com

Answer 1

Since openssh is package with Git for Windows, try and use an opeenssh key (generated with ssh-keygen), without (for now) a passphrase (to avoid needing an ssh-agent)

Register your openssh public key (default id_rsa.pub) on the AWS side.
As in, for instance, "Importing Your Own Public Key to Amazon EC2".

Answer 2

I use the below snippet to ssh using .gitlab-ci.yml job, STAGING_SSH_KEY is stored as a variable under Settings -> CI/CD -> Variables

variables:
    GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY: "true"

image: someimage:latest #replace with any valid image which has ssh installed

before_script:
  - mkdir -p ~/.ssh
  - echo -e "$STAGING_SSH_KEY" > ~/.ssh/id_rsa
  - chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa
  - '[[ -f /.dockerenv ]] && echo -e "Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\n" > ~/.ssh/config'

stages:
 - deploy

deploy_STAGING_job:
  stage: deploy
  script:
   - echo "ssh into the below random IP"
   - ssh myuser@10.200.200.200"
     echo "Login using ssh to remote instance"
     "