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PODeploying a private repo in Chef: What am I doing wrong with my deploy key?
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copied!<p>I am using chef to deploy a rails/node app. Everything deploys fine when I deploy from a public github repository. I would like to deploy from a private github repository, though, and am having trouble doing so. Here is what I am currently doing</p> <pre><code>cd ~/.ssh # change directory to my .ssh directory ssh-keygen -f'deploy_key' -N '' # create a deploy_key key pair without a passphrase cat deploy_key.pub | pbcopy # copy the public key into my clipboard -go to https://github.com/HairyMezican/PrivateRepoName/admin/keys -click on 'Add another deploy key' -type 'deploy_key' into 'Title' field - ⌘V (paste command) into 'Key' field -click 'Add Key' tr "\n" "#" < deploy_key | sed 's/#/\\n/g' | pbcopy #copy the private key into my clipboard, except with all of the newlines replaced with a slash-n cd ~/chef-repo #change over the the chef repo directory mate data_bags/apps/my_app.json #edit the appropriate data bag in TextMate --set the following couple of lines before saving -"repository": "https://HairyMezican@github.com/HairyMezican/PrivateRepoName.git", -"deploy_key": "⌘V (paste command into here)", knife data bag from file apps data_bags/apps/my_app.json #upload the databag to my chef server ssh root@12.34.56.789 "mkdir ~/.ssh" #create a ssh directory on my remote server scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa root@12.34.56.789:.ssh/ #copy my private key over to the ssh directory on the remote server cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh root@12.34.56.789 'cat - >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys' #add my public key into the authorized keys list on the remote server knife bootstrap 12.34.56.789 -dubuntu10.04-gems -rrole[myapp] #tell my chef server to bootstrap the remote server </code></pre> <p>Everything goes fine until the bootstrap process tries to deploy from the private repository. and it displays this:</p> <pre><code>12.34.56.789 [Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:41:42 +0000] INFO: Processing deploy_revision[myapp] action deploy (application::rails line 155) 12.34.56.789 Password: </code></pre> <p>and then practically freezes up (technically, I can still type, but nothing I type affects the script), until 10 minutes later</p> <pre><code>12.34.56.789 [Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:51:51 +0000] ERROR: deploy_revision[myapp] (application::rails line 155) has had an error 12.34.56.789 [Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:51:51 +0000] ERROR: deploy_revision[myapp] (/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/application/recipes/rails.rb:155:in `from_file') had an error: 12.34.56.789 deploy_revision[myapp] (application::rails line 155) had an error: command timed out: </code></pre> <p>It then lists a blank output in stdout and stderr, and a stack trace of it trying to run the command</p> <p>What am I doing wrong and how can I deploy from a private repository?</p>

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