This image is a multiarchitecture compatible docker image

Originally derived from whilp/ssh-agent it builds a docker image with openssh pre-installed and configured.

This container declares a volume that hosts the agent's socket so that other invocations of the ssh client can interact with it.

docker run -d --name=ssh-agent pygmystack/ssh-agent:latest

Run a temporary container which has access to both the volumes from the long-lived ssh-agent container as well as a volume mounted from your host that includes your SSH keys. This container will only be used to load the keys into the long-lived ssh-agent container. Run the following command once for each key you wish to make available through the ssh-agent:

docker run --rm --volumes-from=ssh-agent -v ~/.ssh:/ssh -it pygmystack/ssh-agent:latest ssh-add /ssh/<host_key_file_name>

Host key verification failed is common if known_hosts are not setup. Hosts such as github.com or bitbucket.org will require host key validation. Follow this step to copy any known_hosts from your host to the ssh-agent.

docker run --rm --volumes-from=ssh-agent -v ~/.ssh:/ssh -it pygmystack/ssh-agent:latest cp /ssh/known_hosts /root/.ssh/known_hosts

Now, other containers can access the keys via the ssh-agent by setting the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable.

docker run --rm -it --volumes-from=ssh-agent -e SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/root/.ssh/socket ubuntu /bin/bash -c "apt-get install -y openssh-client && ssh-add -l"

Test optional known_hosts configuration (assuming you followed step 3 above and have Github keys setup)

docker run --rm -it --volumes-from=ssh-agent -e SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/root/.ssh/socket ubuntu /bin/bash -c "apt-get install -y openssh-client && ssh -T [email protected]"

This approach is tested with:

• OSX / Virtualbox / docker-machine