Multi-line OpenSSL GPG Keys

Onboardbase has full support for multiline secrets like ssh keys. Some environments don't provide this support and tend to read just the first few lines of a secret. Luckily we have a solution for this :)

The idea is to read the secret as a file from the deployment environment while the content of the file is managed by Onboardbase.

1. Store the content of the file as a secret

2. In your CI, have a script section that outputs the stored secret into a file in the root of your codebase, e.g

ONBOARDBASE_TOKEN="xxxxxxxxxx"
ONBOARDBASE_PROJECT="project_name"
ONBOARDBASE_ENVIRONMENT="environment_name"

onboardbase run "echo $SSH_KEY > ssh_key.private"

3. Within your code, read a named file from the root of the project

var fs = require('fs'); 
const fsPromises = require('fs').promises;
const path = require("path")

const cwd = process.cwd();
const filePath = path.resolve(cwd, "ssh_key.private")
const sshKey = fsPromises.readFile(filePath);
// console.log(sshKey)

This would log the key that was stored locally via the onboardbase run command, making the file auto-generated in the server environment and the content managed by Onboardbase.