Simple GitHub Action to run a command on a remote server using SSH. This is working with the latest GitHub Actions.

Example using OpenSSH private key

- name: ls -a via ssh
  uses: Revaz333/ssh-action@master
  with:
    command: |
      cd /tmp
      ls -a
    host: ${{ secrets.HOST }}
    user: root
    key: ${{ secrets.PRIVATE_KEY}}

🔐 Set your secrets here: https://github.com/USERNAME/REPO/settings/secrets.

Check out the workflow example for a minimalistic yaml workflow in GitHub Actions.

Result

• host - string - Hostname or IP address of the server. Default: 'localhost'

• port - integer - Port number of the server. Default: 22

• user - string - Username for authentication. Default: (root)

• key - string - Required, that contains a private key for either key-based or hostbased user authentication (OpenSSH format). Default: (none)

• pass - string - Password for authentication.

• args - string - SSH parameters for example: -tt.

Password and Private Key can only be configured one item