Hi All, I have read all the commands in Install Plugins in Discourse. But I didn’t get the result what I am looking for. I am having one issue while cloning the plugin form Azure repo. Could some one help me to fix that. Below is my app.yml file: run: - exec: echo "Beginning of custom commands" - exec: cd /var/www/discourse && sudo -u discourse bundle install --deployment --without test --without development - exec: mkdir /root/.ssh/ - exec: touch /root/.ssh/known_hosts - exec: ssh-keyscan -t rsa azure.microsoft.com > /root/.ssh/known_hosts - exec: echo "Host azure.microsoft.com\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n" >> /root/.ssh/config #- exec: mkdir -p /root/.ssh - file: path: /root/.ssh/id_rsa chmod: 600 contents: | -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED DEK-Info: AES-128-CBC,19EA4589000FE19E7F44F2E86FDA3990 LVu2mQfE468ewQs4dbNN/VQ0ocVx 7bxXEvdz6VDgkanHKDsadfasgqw3tfy+1Mh4VtW7iHbOORE.. etc... -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY----- - file: path: /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub chmod: 600 contents: ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1ycadfasdfsalkfffjsggsadfdfsf My@abc-31.local - exec: cd $home/plugins && git clone yec-addx@vs-ssh.visualsdio.com:url-for-private-plugin - exec: cd $home && sudo -E -u discourse bundle exec rake db:migrate - exec: cd $home && rm -fr tmp/cache - exec: cd $home && sudo -E -u discourse bundle exec rake assets:precompile - exec: rm /root/.ssh/id_rsa - exec: rm /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub - exec: echo "End of custom commands" Error After ./launcher rebuild app FAILED -------------------- Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse/plugins && git clone yec-addx@vs-ssh.visudio.com:url-for-private-plugin failed with return # Location of failure: /pups/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:112:in `spawn' exec failed with the params "cd $home/plugins && git clone yec-addx@vs-ssh.visudio.com:url-for-private-plugin" Could some one me to fix this issue. Many thanks in advance…

Hi Thanks for the response, that is my sample URL. I can able to clone the plugin in my VM, since I am having ssh public key in VM. But I am not able to clone the repo inside the container while run the app.yml. If I clone it inside the plugin I am getting below details: Cloning into ‘Community%20Plugins’… The authenticity of host ‘vs-ssh.visualstudio.com (40.81.25.218)’ can’t be established. RSA key fingerprint is SHA256:ohD8VZEXGWo6Ez8GSEJQ9WpafgLFsOfLOtGGQCQo6Og. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added ‘vs-ssh.visualstudio.com,40.81.25.218’ (RSA) to the list of known hosts. yec-addx@vs-ssh.visualstudio.com’s password: Even if I give correct password its not taking. Could you please suggest to fix this issue.

Got it. So this is a private repo? Instead of username/password is there any support for access tokens? e.g. for Github: [image] Managing your personal access tokens - GitHub Docs You can use a personal access token in place of a password when authenticating to GitHub in the command line or with the API. Then you can use that in your git clone command like: git clone https://my-access-token-code@github.com/blah/blah This avoids any prompt. Not sure if that’s supported in your repository though.

Are you saying that the ssh private key that you are using requires a password? They won’t work. You’ll need an ssh key in the container they allows downloads without a password. The ssh keys must be in place before the container tries to download it.

Hi @pfaffman yes its worked. when I passed the ssh keys in app.yml I was not able to clone the plugin. But inside the plugin folder I can able to clone it. As per @pfaffman suggestion copied the ssh keys in volume: host/ guest: command. Then I can able to clone my private repo. Thanks a lot for the supports.

Install plugin from private Git repository?

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merefield (Robert) March 8, 2019, 8:37am 2

If you go to the plugins directory and run:

git clone yec-addx@vs-ssh.visudio.com:url-for-private-plugin

what do you get?

Specifically url-for-private-plugin doesn’t look like a valid path?

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Install plugin from private Git repository?

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