Github deploy action for Capistrano. Use this action to automate your capistrano deployment process.

Environment where deploy is to be performed to. E.g. "production", "staging". Default value is empty

Required Symmetric key to decrypt private RSA key. Must be a string.

Required Path to the encrypted key. Default "config/deploy_id_rsa_enc".

No outputs

1. Generate SSH keys on the target machine

$ ssh-keygen

2. Export public key to the authorized_keys to allow the usage of this keypair to login

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

3. Add public key from ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to your repository's deployment keys via Settings / Deploy keys / Add
4. Encrypt your private key with a strong password. Please use these options, otherwise this action may not be able to decrypt your key.

$ openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -md sha512 -salt -in .ssh/id_rsa -out deploy_id_rsa_enc -k PASSWORD -a

5. Add deploy_id_rsa_enc file to your repository. Suggested path is config/deploy_id_rsa_enc
6. Save the password used in step 4 as a secret in repository settings via Settings / Secrets / Add
7. Create YAML configuration for your workflow (example below)

name: deploy_production

on:
  push:
    branches: 
      - master

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - uses: miloserdow/[email protected]
      with:
        target: 'production'
        deploy_key: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_ENC_KEY }}