Hello all o/ I’m working on a custom theme for Discourse. Everything works well in the Vagrant VM, and it’s now time to try a “real” install. I pulled the standard Docker image and modified the templates so the bootstrapping would pull from my fork of the discourse/discourse repo, and not the orig…

Thank you @sam , I went the little extra effort and started hacking a solution myself. However I’m partially stuck at setp 1. The most logical would be to give the container an already pre-authorized SSH key. I’m trying to leverage Pups’ automatic import of environment variables as params. I saved …

You could use a file: directive to drop the private key file into the container. Also, you are using a deploy (read-only) key, right?

[image] RabidFX: /launcher bootstrap app --docker-args “-e GIT_PRIVATE_KEY” this is what I did: I added the ssh key to ssh-agent: ssh-add /path/to/private/key I forwarded the agent to the container: ./launcher rebuild app --docker-args "--volume $SSH_AUTH_SOCK:/ssh-agent --env SSH_AUTH_SO…

Custom Docker-Discourse bootstrapping from private GIT repository

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sam (Sam Saffron) July 7, 2015, 5:04am 2

Step 1

Figure out how to do that from command line

Step 2

Plug in what you type in command line into the correct hook

All hooks are named in templates

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