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managing ssh keys with capistrano

I did a lightning talk at MountainWest RubyConf 2007 covering how we use capistrano at Integrum to manage ssh keys for some of our Xen servers. Please note that this works for a single user sharing multiple keys. Here is how it’s done.

Create your directories:

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mkdir sshkeys
cd sshkeys
mkdir config
mkdir keys

Now the recipe.

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# config/deploy.rb
role :app, "myserver.com",
           "myserver2.com",
set :user, "username"
set :deploy_to, "/Users/#{user}/.ssh"
set :use_sudo, false

# override setup since we only need to create the releases path
task :setup do
  run "mkdir -p -m 775 #{releases_path}"
end

# override update_code since we are not using SCM
task :update_code do
  on_rollback { delete release_path, :recursive => true }
  run "mkdir #{release_path}"
  
  # collect all keys and concat them into authorized_keys file on remote server
  put(Dir['keys/*'].collect {|filename| File.read(filename).strip}.join("\n"), "#{release_path}/authorized_keys")
end

task :after_symlink do
  run "ln -nf #{current_path}/authorized_keys #{deploy_to}/authorized_keys"
end

task :restart do
  # nothing to restart
end

That’s pretty much it, nothing fancy but a nice practical solution that works well and makes my life easier.

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