Trying to use AWS Amplify to deploy a multi-repo dendron wiki which has a mix of public and private github repositories.

Amplify can be associated with a single repo but there doesn't seem to be a built-in way to pull in additional private repositories.

CodePudding user response：

1. Create a custom deploy key for the private repo in github
   • generate the key

   ssh-keygen -f deploy_key -N ""
   

2. Encode the deploy key as a base64 encoded env variable for amplitude

   cat deploy_key | base64 | tr -d \\n 
   

   • add this as a hosting environment variable (eg. DEPLOY_KEY)
3. Modify the amplify.yml file to make use of the deploy key
   • there's 2 key steps
     • adding deploy key to ssh-agent
       • WARNING: this implementation will print the $DEPLOY_KEY to stdout
     • disabling StrictHostKeyChecking
       • NOTE: amplify does not have a $HOME/.ssh folder by default so you'll need to create one as part of the deployment process
   • relevant excerpt below

   - ...
   - eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
   - ssh-add <(echo "$DEPLOY_KEY" | base64 -d)
   
   - echo "disable strict host key check"
   - mkdir ~/.ssh
   - touch ~/.ssh/config
   
   - 'echo -e "Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\n" > ~/.ssh/config'
   - ...
   

   • full build file here

Now you should be able to use git to clone the private repo.

For a more detailed writeup as well as alternatives and gotchas, see here