Set up SSH with GitHub

Setup an SSH key to pull the latest Rodan-Docker changes on a deployed server

There are some very good instructions on how to create an ssh key Here from GitHub. There are just a few things to consider, do not install xclip it is not useful for our purposes because we have SSH-ed in our staging environment anyway. Use copy and paste functions instead.

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "yourname"

• Add the Public key (e.g., id_rsa.pub) to the deploy keys in the settings for Rodan-Docker. Do not check the "allow editing" checkbox. Put the name of the server and your name also.
• Create an ssh config under your account with the following, make sure the IdentityFile directive points to the location of the private ssh key we just made.

  Host github.com
    User git
    HostName github.com
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
  

Clone the repository

Important: There are two major branches for Rodan. Major releases are in Production, while the develop branch with the nightly builds is the one on the Staging server.

cd /srv/webapps/
git clone --single-branch -b develop [email protected]:DDMAL/Rodan.git