Remote Access through SSH
Proxy Jump
CI Workflow
It is very tricky to make SSH connections in CI workflows like GitHub Actions and Gitlab CI.
I have suffered from both during the past few month: each spent me about a day to find a magic trick to make it work.
The difficulty comes from accessing private servers from a docker machine.
You need to setup the private and public keys properly and overcome multiple issues like Host key verification failed when you tries to access to a machine for the first time,
proxy jump through another server, etc.
For example, I need to turn off ssh host key checking for the first time access on the university server and use a proxy jump to acccess data from the actual machine behind:
ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no hongyang@login.physics.helsinki.fi
ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -J hongyang@login.physics.helsinki.fi hongyang@turso.cs.helsinki.fi
scp -r -o 'ProxyCommand ssh hongyang@login.physics.helsinki.fi -W %h:%p' \
hongyang@turso.cs.helsinki.fi:proj/reference.tar.gz testpackage/tests/
Thanks to all the people online sharing their experience on all kinds of issues!