Setting up private Github access with AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Ruby container

Question

Going by a recent tutorial on setting up AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Ruby deployment using Git, I just set up a Elastic Beanstalk environment from my CI server. However, the a

Answer 1

Remove the private github repos from your requirements.txt file and create a script to install them using environmental variables for usernames and passwords.

file: project-root/install-extra-requirements.sh

#!/bin/sh

source /opt/python/run/venv/bin/activate
python ".extra-requirements.py"

file: project-root/.extra-requirements.py

import os

def main():
    github_username = os.environ['GITHUB_USERNAME']
    github_password = os.environ['GITHUB_PASSWORD']
    repository = "git+https://%s:%s@github.com/yourgithubrepo" % (github_username, github_password)
    os.system("pip install %s" % repository)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

file: project-root/.ebextensions/002_container.config

container_commands:
  01_install_extra_requirements:
    command: './install-extra-requirements.sh'

Now you can just set GITHUB_USERNAME and GITHUB_PASSWORD as environmental variables in your elastic beanstalk environment.