Bootstrap multiple Github repos

[bozho]

Hi all,

I have a private Github test repository for deploying a cluster. The code also references another private repository (containing common/global k8s resource that would get reused across different clusters).

I know how to manually create a new SSH keypair secret using flux create secret git and add the public key as a deploy key to the "common" Github repository.

I was wondering is there a way to automate those two steps during flux bootstrap, to have flux automatically create and set deploy SSH keys to each referenced git repository during bootstrapping?

[stefanprodan]

I suggest creating a Flux user in your org or a GitHub App for Flux. This way you can use a HTTP/S token for all repos where Flux needs access to, replacing SSH/deploy keys with GitHub PAT/ App Key.

[bozho]

Ah, use token auth instead of SSH keys, right?

[stefanprodan]

Yeap

[bozho]

Thank you very much! (I know about using PATs, I read about them in the docs, I have no idea why it didn't occur to me to use them here :-)