Struggling with CI/CD Pipeline in Linux during Migration from Jenkins to GitHub Actions
I'm deploying to production and I'm dealing with Currently developing a CI/CD pipeline as part of a migration project from Jenkins to GitHub Actions on a Linux server. The objective is to automate our deployment process for a Node.js application that utilizes MongoDB. In the Jenkins setup, we had several jobs configured with specific triggers, notifications, and integrations. However, the transition seems more complicated than anticipated. I've created a basic `.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml` file in the repo: ```yaml name: CI/CD Pipeline on: push: branches: - main jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Checkout code uses: actions/checkout@v2 - name: Set up Node.js uses: actions/setup-node@v2 with: node-version: '14' - name: Install dependencies run: npm install - name: Run tests run: npm test - name: Deploy to production run: npm run deploy ``` Despite this setup, the deployment to our staging environment does not trigger as expected after tests pass. The deployment script is supposed to connect to our remote server using SSH, but it appears that the server's SSH key isn't recognized, even though I have set it as a secret in GitHub. I’ve tried adding a step to establish the SSH connection directly in the workflow: ```yaml - name: Set up SSH run: | mkdir -p ~/.ssh echo "$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY" > ~/.ssh/id_rsa chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa ssh-keyscan -H $SERVER_HOST >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts ``` But I still get the error: `Permission denied (publickey).` I ensured the key is added to the authorized keys on the server side, and permissions are set correctly. Community recommendations suggest verifying the environment variables; however, I've checked them multiple times. Additionally, the logs aren't yielding much insight. Any guidance on troubleshooting this? Perhaps there’s a better way to manage SSH keys in GitHub Actions for this type of migration? Would love to hear about best practices or patterns that could help streamline this process. What's the best practice here?