jenkins/hudson can't connect to github repo

Question

I am on Ec2 with the base amazon ami linux- I have installed jenkins but when I go to pull the repo from github I am given the following error:

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Answer 1

I'm using a single jenkins machine to check out multiple github repositories and had similar problems when setting it up. What I ended up doing was configuring an SSH config file for jenkins so that SSH would automatically know which id file to associate with each repository.

/var/lib/jenkins/.ssh/config:

Host github-ABC
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile /var/lib/jenkins/.ssh/id_rsa_ABC

In the Jenkins project config under source code management, I used this as the repository name:

git@github-ABC:user/repo.git

Finally, I use the SSH public key as a deploy key in the github repository.