Clone private git repo with dockerfile

Question

So I am new to dockerfile and docker. I made my own dockerfile from other different working dockerfiles:

FROM ubuntu

MAINTAINER Luke Crooks "[email protected]"

# Update aptitude with new repo
RUN apt-get update

# Install software 
RUN apt-get install -y git python-virtualenv

# Make ssh dir
RUN mkdir /root/.ssh/

# Copy over private key, and set permissions
ADD id_rsa /root/.ssh/id_rsa
RUN chmod 700 /root/.ssh/id_rsa
RUN chown -R root:root /root/.ssh

# Create known_hosts
RUN touch /root/.ssh/known_hosts

# Remove host checking
RUN echo "Host bitbucket.org\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n" >> /root/.ssh/config

# Clone the conf files into the docker container
RUN git clone [email protected]:Pumalo/docker-conf.git /home/docker-conf

But on running this dockerfile, I get the following errors:

Step 10 : RUN git clone [email protected]:Pumalo/docker-conf.git /home/docker-conf
 ---> Running in 0d244d812a54
Cloning into '/home/docker-conf'...
Warning: Permanently added 'bitbucket.org,131.103.20.167' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

2014/04/30 16:07:28 The command [/bin/sh -c git clone [email protected]:Pumalo/docker-conf.git /home/docker-conf] returned a non-zero code: 128 

I don't see why it's not working. Now using my local key (id_rsa) I can clone my repo with no issue, but on copying it to the same directory as the dockerfile and using it with the dockerfile is giving me an error

Edit:

I've added this to my dockerfile now :

RUN cat /root/.ssh/id_rsa 

now it's able to print out the correct key, so I am sure of the fact that i have copied the key correctly.

I tried to run as noah advised, given below:

RUN echo "Host bitbucket.org\n\tIdentityFile /root/.ssh/id_rsa\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no" >> /etc/ssh/ssh_config 

Still getting an error, can someone help me out ?

Answer 1

So the issue here is that the key is protected, I have given the working file below :

FROM ubuntu

MAINTAINER Luke Crooks "[email protected]"

# Update aptitude with new repo
RUN apt-get update

# Install software 
RUN apt-get install -y git
# Make ssh dir
RUN mkdir /root/.ssh/

# Copy over private key, and set permissions
# Warning! Anyone who gets their hands on this image will be able
# to retrieve this private key file from the corresponding image layer
ADD id_rsa /root/.ssh/id_rsa

# Create known_hosts
RUN touch /root/.ssh/known_hosts
# Add bitbuckets key
RUN ssh-keyscan bitbucket.org >> /root/.ssh/known_hosts

# Clone the conf files into the docker container
RUN git clone [email protected]:User/repo.git

Hope this helps :)

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