How to use ssh identity file with Github Actions - ssh

Question

I'm in the throes of setting up a Github Action that should run an SSH command to connect to a private server. The private server's connection settings i have specify an identityFile, which I do own. After this connection, I will then run a proxycommand, so this is essentially to a bastion, for context.
What I cannot quite figure out at this point is how/which github action supports this configuration. I see the commands on this one (similar to others): https://github.com/appleboy/ssh-action/blob/master/action.yml and no mention of identifyFile property. Is there another way to execute this or a ssh command that can make this possible?
Would appreciate some pointers, thanks!

Answer 1

If you need some explanation of how to write your action, you can read this article : How to create Github Actions to run tests with docker services .
You just have to create your workflow file and use the actions of appleboy like on steps keyword :
- name: executing remote ssh commands using password
uses: appleboy/ssh-action#master
with:
host: ${{ secrets.HOST }}
username: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
key: ${{ secrets.KEY }}
key_path: ${{ secrets.KEY_PATH }}
password: ${{ secrets.PASSWORD }}
port: ${{ secrets.PORT }}
script: whoami
With the script line, you can execute what you want to do in the server and connect with the parameters set above. For multiple line do like this :
script: |
pwd
ls -al
Hope it will help.