Docker: go get from a private GitHub repo

Question

I\'m trying to run a container that will expose a golang service from a package that I have on a private GitHub repo.

Since I am working with GCE, my starter image is g

Answer 1

I figured this out after a bit of hacking around. Not an ideal solution as it involves installing SSH, plus building a private key into the container. This example is based on the official Docker golang image (Debian Wheezy):

The main difference to your example is that you need a git config command to force ssh instead of the default https.

FROM golang

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y ca-certificates git-core ssh

ADD keys/my_key_rsa /root/.ssh/id_rsa
RUN chmod 700 /root/.ssh/id_rsa
RUN echo "Host github.com\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n" >> /root/.ssh/config
RUN git config --global url.ssh://git@github.com/.insteadOf https://github.com/

ADD . /go/src/github.com/myaccount/myprivaterepo

RUN go get github.com/myaccount/myprivaterepo
RUN go install github.com/myaccount/myprivaterepo