Automatically pull from remote using GitHub Actions

Question

I have a private repository on GitHub and my goal is that whenever there is a new commit, the repository us updated on the VPS.

The issue with this is that the repository is private and requires authentication. I tried settings my username and password in the global git config but even after doing that it still requires authentication.

Answer 1

Figured out the solution on my own. The issue with the various things I was doing was as follows. I was trying to do something along the lines of git pull https://${{ secrets.TOKEN }}@github.com/repo

The solution was putting the entire command git pull https://[email protected]/repo as a secret and then running the script: ${{ secrets.SCRIPT }} via SSH.

My action at the end of this:

name: Remote SSH
on: [push]
jobs:

  build:
    name: Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: executing remote ssh commands using password
      uses: appleboy/ssh-action@master
      with:
        host: ${{ secrets.IP }}
        username: ${{ secrets.USER }}
        password: ${{ secrets.PRIVATE_KEY }}
        port: ${{ secrets.PORT }}
        script: |
          cd Repository
          ${{ secrets.SCRIPT}}
          pm2 restart 0

Answer 2

According to the doc you can use env like this

  - name: pass environment
    uses: appleboy/ssh-action@master
    env:
      FOO: "BAR"
      BAR: "FOO"
      SHA: ${{ github.sha }}
    with:
      host: ${{ secrets.HOST }}
      username: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
      key: ${{ secrets.KEY }}
      port: ${{ secrets.PORT }}
      envs: FOO,BAR
      script: |
        echo "I am $FOO"
        echo "I am $BAR"
        echo "sha: $SHA"