3.4. Git source

When a BuildConfig is created, OpenShift Container Platform can automatically populate its source clone secret reference. This behavior allows the resulting builds to automatically use the credentials stored in the referenced secret to authenticate to a remote Git repository, without requiring further configuration.

To use this functionality, a secret containing the Git repository credentials must exist in the namespace in which the BuildConfig is later created. This secrets must include one or more annotations prefixed with build.openshift.io/source-secret-match-uri-. The value of each of these annotations is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) pattern, which is defined as follows. When a BuildConfig is created without a source clone secret reference and its Git source URI matches a URI pattern in a secret annotation, OpenShift Container Platform automatically inserts a reference to that secret in the BuildConfig.

In all of the above, a * character is interpreted as a wildcard.

$ oc annotate secret mysecret \
    'build.openshift.io/source-secret-match-uri-1=ssh://bitbucket.atlassian.com:7999/*'

The following fragment shows two partial source clone secrets, the first matching any server in the domain mycorp.com accessed by HTTPS, and the second overriding access to servers mydev1.mycorp.com and mydev2.mycorp.com:

kind: Secret
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: matches-all-corporate-servers-https-only
  annotations:
    build.openshift.io/source-secret-match-uri-1: https://*.mycorp.com/*
data:
  ...

kind: Secret
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: override-for-my-dev-servers-https-only
  annotations:
    build.openshift.io/source-secret-match-uri-1: https://mydev1.mycorp.com/*
    build.openshift.io/source-secret-match-uri-2: https://mydev2.mycorp.com/*
data:
  ...

Source clone secrets can be added manually to a build configuration by adding a sourceSecret field to the source section inside the BuildConfig and setting it to the name of the secret that you created. In this example, it is the basicsecret.

apiVersion: "v1"
kind: "BuildConfig"
metadata:
  name: "sample-build"
spec:
  output:
    to:
      kind: "ImageStreamTag"
      name: "sample-image:latest"
  source:
    git:
      uri: "https://github.com/user/app.git"
    sourceSecret:
      name: "basicsecret"
  strategy:
    sourceStrategy:
      from:
        kind: "ImageStreamTag"
        name: "python-33-centos7:latest"

If the cloning of your application is dependent on a .gitconfig file, then you can create a secret that contains it. Add it to the builder service account and then your BuildConfig.

$ oc create secret generic <secret_name> --from-file=<path/to/.gitconfig>

[http]
        sslVerify=false

If your Git server is secured with two-way SSL and user name with password, you must add the certificate files to your source build and add references to the certificate files in the .gitconfig file.

Basic authentication requires either a combination of --username and --password, or a token to authenticate against the software configuration management (SCM) server.

SSH key based authentication requires a private SSH key.

The repository keys are usually located in the $HOME/.ssh/ directory, and are named id_dsa.pub, id_ecdsa.pub, id_ed25519.pub, or id_rsa.pub by default.

The set of Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate authorities (CA) that are trusted during a Git clone operation are built into the OpenShift Container Platform infrastructure images. If your Git server uses a self-signed certificate or one signed by an authority not trusted by the image, you can create a secret that contains the certificate or disable TLS verification.

If you create a secret for the CA certificate, OpenShift Container Platform uses it to access your Git server during the Git clone operation. Using this method is significantly more secure than disabling Git SSL verification, which accepts any TLS certificate that is presented.

You can combine the different methods for creating source clone secrets for your specific needs.