Automated builds with private submodules?

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Has anyone actually got this to work?

I’m having no luck, and I have added the deploy keys. Error is:
Warning: Permanently added ‘github.com,192.30.252.130’ (RSA) to the list of known hosts. fatal: could not read Username for ‘https://github.com’:[1] No such device or address Clone of ‘https://…github.com/…’ into submodule path ‘vendor/lib’ failed

Non submodule repos clone fine.

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I don’t know anywhere near enough about several of the parts of this - perhaps the best thing to do is to email support@docker.com with the details of your automated build and @rufus can help teach me :smile:

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I have the same issue, I created “machine user” on github, and added that user as collaborator to my private repositories on github, and set up SSH deploy key but still no luck making this work…

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Hi!

Is there a guide somewhere about this?
Or is it still not possible?

I know the problem is that no private key is available to clone a private submodule in docker build … but how are we supposed to give it to the build process/container?

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Hi! I had similar issues with my environment and after talk with docker cloud support, they told me that the best way to clone a private repositories with submodules is create a github machine user with your own private/public key and add a variable into docker cloud repository called: SSH_PRIVATE. This worked for me :slight_smile: