>
> one I think would be nice is one that basically takes an SSH_AGENT from 
> the Jenkins user and exposes its keys as SSH keys (so good an idea I may 
> implement it myself... if I get spare time or if my employer agrees it is a 
> good idea)
>

In my reading I came across some references to mounting $SSH_AUTH_SOCK as a 
volume in the container and using that for ssh-agent forwarding. I didn't 
really understand what I was doing, I'll need to read more about ssh-agent 
forwarding, but I think that it will fail at least for the same reason as 
mounting ~/.ssh/ as a volume fails: the uid will inherit from the host, and 
not match the container uid.

2. Seed the JENKINS_HOME volume with unencrypted credentials.xml and have 
> an init.groovy.d script trigger a save (which will encrypt them on first 
> start)
>

This sounds like a workable way forward. 

On Tuesday, 3 January 2017 19:51:09 UTC, Stephen Connolly wrote:
>
> there are two other options:
>
> 1. Bake the secret key used to encrypt Jenkins secrets into your image 
> (downside, anyone with access to the image can decrypt they keys)
>
> 2. Seed the JENKINS_HOME volume with unencrypted credentials.xml and have 
> an init.groovy.d script trigger a save (which will encrypt them on first 
> start)
>
> Outside of that, you could look into implementing a plugin that extends 
> from CredentialsProvider and exposes your ssh credentials how you see fit.
>
> one I think would be nice is one that basically takes an SSH_AGENT from 
> the Jenkins user and exposes its keys as SSH keys (so good an idea I may 
> implement it myself... if I get spare time or if my employer agrees it is a 
> good idea)
>
> That way you could mount the SSH_AGENT socket into docker and away you 
> go... of course none of that is written yet... so fit now just hack it 
> working 
>
> On Tue 3 Jan 2017 at 14:21, Barry Laffoy <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm trying to set-up our Jenkins master in a reproducible way using the 
>> Docker image here: https://github.com/jenkinsci/docker
>>
>> One problem I am having is how to make ssh private keys (e.g. for polling 
>> git repos) available within the container in a secure manner. Ideally, I 
>> would like to be able set the private keys at runtime for the container, as 
>> a way to test the configuration in a safe environment before it is promoted 
>> to production.
>>
>> Copying the keys at build time fails this second requirement (and may 
>> have security implications if it would make a user's private key visible to 
>> anybody with permission to run the container?).
>>
>> Mounting the key location as volume with `docker run -v 
>> /path/to/keys:/var/jenkins_home/.ssh` does not work, as the mount point in 
>> the container inherits the uid/gid of the host directory, which does not 
>> match the uid/gid of the "jenkins" user within the container. There are 
>> solutions to this available, using gosu, but that seems to be strongly 
>> discouraged by the community.
>>
>> What is the advised/best practise way of injecting ssh private keys into 
>> the Jenkins master container?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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