Git authentication in Chef

Question

When deploying an application with Chef, I\'ve got the code base set to be cloned from a private github repository with the following resource:

git \'/mnt/ap         


        

Answer 1

ssh_wrapper "ssh -i /some/path/id_rsa"

In case someone comes across this, the above didn't work for me, I kept getting the error:

error: cannot run ssh -i /some/path/id_rsa: No such file or directory

What specifying ssh_wrapper does is it sets the GIT_SSH environment variable, and it turns out you can't provide parameters in the GIT_SSH environment variable (see Git clone with custom SSH using GIT_SSH error).

Instead, you would need to write your script to a file first, then set GIT_SSH to it.

So:

file "/some/path/git_wrapper.sh" do
  owner "your_user"
  mode "0755"
  content "#!/bin/sh\nexec /usr/bin/ssh -i /some/path/id_rsa \"$@\""
end

And change the git resource part to:

git "/opt/mysources/couch" do
  repository "git://git.apache.org/couchdb.git"
  reference "master"
  action :sync
  ssh_wrapper "/some/path/git_wrapper.sh"
end