Install SSH Key

This action installs SSH key in ~/.ssh.

Useful for SCP, SFTP, and rsync over SSH in deployment script.

Works on all virtual environment -- Windows, macOS, Ubuntu and Ubuntu 16.04.

Usage

Add your SSH key to your product secrets by clicking Settings - Secrets - Add a new secret beforehand.

NOTE: Due to version of OpenSSH on VM, OPENSSH format (key begins with -----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----) may not work. Please use PEM format (begins with -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----) instead.

runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Install SSH key
  uses: shimataro/ssh-key-action@v1
  with:
    private-key: ${{ secrets.SSH_KEY }}
    name: id_rsa # optional
    known-hosts: ${{ secrets.KNOWN_HOSTS }} # known_hosts; optional
    config: ${{ secrets.CONFIG }} # ssh_config; optional
- name: rsync over ssh
  run: rsync ./foo/ user@remote:bar/

See Workflow syntax for GitHub Actions for details.

Install multiple keys

If you want to install multiple keys, call this action multiple times. It is useful for port forwarding.

NOTE: When this action is called multiple times, the contents of known-hosts and config will be appended. But private-key must be saved as different name, by using name option.

runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Install SSH key of bastion
  uses: shimataro/ssh-key-action@v1
  with:
    private-key: ${{ secrets.SSH_KEY_OF_BASTION }}
    name: id_rsa-bastion
    known-hosts: ${{ secrets.KNOWN_HOSTS_OF_BASTION }}
    config: |
      Host bastion
        HostName xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
        User user-of-bastion
        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-bastion
- name: Install SSH key of target
  uses: shimataro/ssh-key-action@v1
  with:
    private-key: ${{ secrets.SSH_KEY_OF_TARGET }}
    name: id_rsa-target
    known-hosts: ${{ secrets.KNOWN_HOSTS_OF_TARGET }} # will be appended!
    config: |                                         # will be appended!
      Host target
        HostName yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
        User user-of-target
        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-target
        ProxyCommand ssh -W %h:%p bastion
- name: SCP via port-forwarding
  run: scp ./foo/ target:bar/

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.