GitLab CI - SSH with Passphrase deploy example

.gitlab-ci.yml

before_script:
  - apt-get update -y && apt-get install openssh-client rsync -y
  - mkdir -p ~/.ssh
  - chmod 700 ~/.ssh
  - echo 'echo "$SSH_PASSPHRASE"' > ~/.ssh/.print_ssh_password
  - chmod 700 ~/.ssh/.print_ssh_password
  - chmod +x ~/.ssh/.print_ssh_password
  - echo "$SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS" >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts
  - chmod 644 ~/.ssh/known_hosts
  - eval $(ssh-agent -s)
  - echo "$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY" | tr -d '\r' | DISPLAY=":0.0" SSH_ASKPASS=~/.ssh/.print_ssh_password setsid ssh-add - > /dev/null

deploy_staging:
  type: deploy
  script:
    - rsync -rzvhWP --delete --delete-excluded --exclude-from 'exclude-files.txt' ./public/ [email protected]:~/public/  
    - echo "Staging Ready!"
  environment:
    name: staging
    url: http://www.host.net
  only:
    - development