SSH Agent Setup

October 27, 2023

Version updated for marwaha-raghav/ssh-agent-ansible to version v0.2.1.

This action is used across all versions by 1 repositories.

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Release notes

This release features changes with removal of capture_out flag from subprocess to ensure comptability with version below python3.7

Any Private Key with a passphrase requires the passphrase to be added interactively for every host specified in the ansible inventory So, in order to make this process non-interactive at the shell level and easy to use IaC CI pipelines through Github Actions, This tool/action runs ssh-agent, generates a file with specified passphrase for ssh_ask_pass and then adds the key and passphrase with ssh-add to the ssh-agent non-interactively.

This Action will

Start ssh-agent. Export custom bind able SSH_AUTH_SOCKET env variable. Generate an executable file with the ansible SSH Key Passphrase (ssh_ask_pass requires aan executable file to be passed as an env var) Load SSH Key with non-interactively through stdin to ssh-agent using ssh-add and also export the SSH_ASK_PASS env var with the passphrase containing executable file. On failure the action will return a non-zero code.