Gitlab CI - Deploy via SSH to remote server

Question

I have a Gitlab environment using Gitlab CI, for a new project to testify about the compiled files and copy via rsync to a production server.

The machine where the build of these resources is exec is an image of docker (node 6), but now I have to copy the resulting files from that container Docker command to the server using linux ... My problem is to connect via ssh through rsync.

Currently I have the following:

stages: - deploy before_script: - npm i - npm run build job_deploy: stage: deploy script: - ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C '' -f ~/.ssh/deploy_rsa - ssh-keyscan -H 8.8.8.8 >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts - ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/deploy_rsa.pub [email protected] - rsync -avuz $CI_PROJECT_DIR/dist/ [email protected]:/var/wwww/example.com only: - master 

By this I'm getting:

 /usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: attempting to log in with the new key(s), to filter out any that are already installed /usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: 1 key(s) remain to be installed -- if you are prompted now it is to install the new keys Permission denied, please try again. Permission denied, please try again. Permission denied (publickey,password). 

Answer 1

ssh-copy-id is asking for a password. You can use sshpass -e and set the SSHPASS environment variable in Gitlab.

Answer 2

You are not passing the ssh key to rsync. You should do something like this which executes the ssh command to properly identify the ssh key:

rsync -avuz -e 'ssh -i ~/.ssh/deploy_rsa' $CI_PROJECT_DIR/dist/ [email protected]:/var/wwww/example.com