Github Oauth token for Golang

Question

We use AWS code deploy to deploy the Github projects to Ec2 instances every time it deploys it asks for Github username and password to download the repository. Found following ways to solve this

1. Supply Uname & Pwd (not preferred)
2. Setup SSH Key (not possible as the instance keeps changing ip)
3. Oauth token

Setting up Oauth for PHP repository was done by adding it in composer auth.json .composer/auth.json.

{
    "http-basic": {},
    "github-oauth": {"github.com": "xyzasasasauhu"}
}

But couldn't find a way to do this for Golang project. Typically we want to achieve go get https://github.com/username/reponame without supplying the credentials explicitly.

Answer 1

There are two solutions to this problem:

1. Don't deploy code. Go is a statically compiled programming language. There's no need to have Go source code on the server you intend to run the Go program on.

2. Don't use go get to get the code for your private GitHub repo. As long as the code ends up in the correct subdirectory ($GOPATH/src/github.com/org/project), Go doesn't care how it got there. Simply add to your build script a few commands:

   DIR=$GOPATH/src/github.com/org/project
   TOKEN=yourtoken
   
   if [ -d $DIR ]; then
     cd $DIR
     git reset --hard  
     git clean -dfx
   else
     mkdir -p $DIR
     cd $DIR
     git init  
   fi
   
   git pull https://[email protected]/org/project.git