Git error: “Host Key Verification Failed” when connecting to remote repository

Question

I am trying to connect to a remote Git repository that resides on my web server and clone it to my machine.

I am using the following format for my command:

Answer 1

I was facing the same error inside DockerFile during build time while the image was public. I did little modification in Dockerfile.

 RUN git clone  https://github.com/kacole2/express-node-mongo-skeleton.git /www/nodejs

This would be because using the git@github.com:... syntax ends up > using SSH to clone, and inside the container, your private key is not > available. You'll want to use RUN git clone > https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka.git instead.