Configure access to private repositories

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This document describes how to configure an environment to allow the Docker SDK access private repositories.

You need to configure access to private repositories in the following cases:

  • You have a private repository mentioned in composer.json:
{
    "require": {
        "my-repo": "dev-master"
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "git",
            "url": "git@github.com:my-org/my-repo.git"
        }
    ]
}
  • Running docker/sdk up returns an error similar to the following:
Cloning into '/data/vendor/my-org/my-repo'...
git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

Configure an environment to access private repositories

  1. Add the .known_hosts file with the list of domains of VCS services into the project root. Example:
github.com
bitbucket.org
gitlab.my-org.com
  1. Configure authentication of Composer to VCS services using one of the following options:

Configure SSH agent authentication for Composer

  1. Remove the GITHUB_TOKEN and COMPOSER_AUTH environment variables:
unset GITHUB_TOKEN
unset COMPOSER_AUTH
  1. Prepare SSH agent by adding your private keys:
eval $(ssh-agent)
ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa

  1. MacOS and Windows: For Docker Desktop to fetch the changes, restart the OS.

  2. Re-build the application:

docker/sdk up --build

Configure the Composer authentication environment variable

  1. Create access tokens in your VCS services.

  2. Prepare a COMPOSER_AUTH environment variable with the VCS tokens you’ve created in JSON:

    • GitHub:
    {
    "github-oauth": {
        "github.com": "{GITHUB_TOKEN}"
    }
}
    • BitBucket:
    {
    "bitbucket-oauth": {
        "bitbucket.org": {
            "consumer-key": "{BITBUCKET_KEY}",
            "consumer-secret": "{BITBUCKET_SECRET}"
        }
    }
}
    • GitLab
    {
    "gitlab-token": {
        "mysprykershop.com": "{GITLAB_TOKEN}"
    }
}

To learn about Composer authentication variables, see COMPOSER_AUTH and Custom token authentication

  1. Enable the environment variable using one of the following options:
  • Export the environment variable taking Bash escaping rules into consideration:
export COMPOSER_AUTH="{\"github-oauth\":{\"github.com\":\"{GITHUB_TOKEN}\"},\"gitlab-oauth\":{\"gitlab.com\":\"{GITLAB_TOKEN}\"},\"bitbucket-oauth\":{\"bitbucket.org\": {\"consumer-key\": \"{BITBUCKET_KEY}\", \"consumer-secret\": \"{BITBUCKET_SECRET}\"}}}"
  • Add the environment variable to your development environment by editing ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zshenv:
export COMPOSER_AUTH="{\"github-oauth\":{\"github.com\":\"{GITHUB_TOKEN}\"},\"gitlab-oauth\":{\"gitlab.com\":\"{GITLAB_TOKEN}\"},\"bitbucket-oauth\":{\"bitbucket.org\": {\"consumer-key\": \"{BITBUCKET_KEY}\", \"consumer-secret\": \"{BITBUCKET_SECRET}\"}}}"
  1. Re-build the application:
docker/sdk up --build

You’ve configured authentication to your private repositories.