github-action-deploy-with-ssh-keys.md

GitHub pages deployment using SSH keys

1. Create a GitHub workflow file;

   mkdir .github
   mkdir .github/worflows
   touch ci.yml

2. Inside the file paste the updated steps for GitHub SSH action and Deploy to GitHub Pages

   name: Deploy
   on:
   push:
    tags:
      - 'GA*'
   # ...
   - name: Install SSH Client 🔑
     uses: webfactory/ssh-agent@v0.7.0
     with:
       ssh-private-key: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_KEY }}
   
   - name: Deploy 🚀
     uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4
     with:
       BASE_BRANCH: master
       BRANCH: gh-pages
       CLEAN: true
       FOLDER: .
       SSH: true
   # ...

3. Create a SSH keys on this folder

   ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C <YOUR_EMAIL>

4. When it promted for Enter file in which to save the key change the name of the file, e.g: repo-name

   $ Generating public/private rsa key pair.
   $ Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/username/.ssh/id_rsa): repo-name
   $ Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
   $ Enter same passphrase again:

5. Copy secret SSK key:

   cat repo-name | pbcopy

6. Create a DEPLOY_KEY GitHub secret on your repo: Settings > Secrets > New secret and paste the secret SSH key

7. Copy public SSK key

   cat repo-name.pub | pbcopy

8. Create a deploy key on your GitHub repo: Settings > Deploy keys > Add deploy key and paste the public secret key

9. 🚀

Very helpful !

This is great and very helpfull

Thanks very much for this, saved me a ton of time.

To save the next person even more time: I needed to change webfactory/ssh-agent@v0.4.0 to webfactory/ssh-agent@v0.7.0

Thanks @bmorrall,

I updated the libraries you mentioned