Cloning private GitHub projects onto a new worker Linux box.

Goals:

• That machine should have access to that project, but not other projects. This is done using the Deploy Keys feature of GitHub.

• It should be able to access other repositories as needed. Note that each repository will need its own SSH key.

Implementation, for each project and machine:

• Generate a new ssh key for that project, and add it to the repository’s list of allowed deploy keys.

  ssh-keygen -f project1 -C project1

• Set up ssh config

  Host project1.gh
    HostName github.com
    IdentityFile /path/to/your/keys/project1
    User git

• Use project1.gh instead of git@github.com when cloning the repository.

I do this when I set up my notes vault on a new machine.