Connect to Bitbucket repo on Bamboo build via composer

Question

Hi,

I need ability to connect to our Bitbucket account on the bamboo build server that is fired up. Steps I have taken so far:

* Logged on to initial build server and created a public/private ssh encrypted key
* Created a 'shared credentials' on bamboo and added the private key to this
* Created a 'deployment key' on Bitbucket for the repo i want to connect to, in this deployment key i have put the public key that I generated on the initial server

This doesn't give me access, i'm pretty sure what i'm doing above is incorrect, any suggestions?

Kevin

Kevin Matthews · Answer

We are running composer on our build server which installs a number of repo's from our private repositories.

The build server is an elastic agent and we have multiple ones, each time a build server is booted up its a brand new build server, so therefore there is no public/private key.

Therefore when we run composer to connect to our private repo there is no key to use in order to authenticate.

i want every build server we boot up to have access to our private repo via composer.

I thought using shared credentials was teh way forward for this but can't seem to get that.

Another way forward seems to be creating a EBS snapshot which has the private key on.

Tim Crall1 · Answer

Do you need to connect from the Bamboo Server itself from a build agent running a build plan?  Setting up SSH on the server will not automatically let an agent connect.  What are you trying to do exactly?

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