SShpass not allowed with Travis CI

Question

Context

I have an application in which, I m using unit tests and I need to continuous deliver this. I chose to use github + travis + docker.

My Docker container is an Ubuntu 12.04 with openSSL that I cant connect from outside, and I dont have any problem with this

I need, when the travis build is okay, to connect my docker container via SSH and to run a script.

Problem

Actually, I m using :

But this doesn't work at all, because sshpass is not in the whitelist. It seems that I cant you before_install command, because I m on a container based infrastructure.

NB : The port is 22, I missed it during the picture taken.

Questions

• How can I do to connect my ssh container from travis to deploy my app (only run a script that git clone / git pull if the directory exists)
• Is this a good way to make it like this with travis, or does it exist something else ?

EDIT :

The travis new file :

And the log

Using worker: worker-linux-968a87ce-1.bb.travis-ci.org:travis-linux-14
system_info
Build system information
Build language: node_js
Build image provisioning date and time
Wed Feb  4 18:22:50 UTC 2015
Operating System Details
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release:    12.04
Codename:   precise
Linux Version
2.6.32-042stab090.5
Cookbooks Version
23bb455 https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-cookbooks/tree/23bb455
GCC version
gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
LLVM version
clang version 3.4 (tags/RELEASE_34/final)
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
Pre-installed Ruby versions
ruby-1.9.3-p551
Pre-installed Node.js versions
v0.10.36
Pre-installed Go versions
1.4.1
Redis version
redis-server 2.8.19
riak version
2.0.2
MongoDB version
MongoDB 2.4.12
CouchDB version
couchdb 1.6.1
Neo4j version
1.9.4
Cassandra version
2.0.9
RabbitMQ Version
3.4.3
ElasticSearch version
1.4.0
Installed Sphinx versions
2.0.10
2.1.9
2.2.6
Default Sphinx version
2.2.6
Installed Firefox version
firefox 31.0esr
PhantomJS version
1.9.8
ant -version
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.2 compiled on December 3 2011
mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.2.5 (12a6b3acb947671f09b81f49094c53f426d8cea1; 2014-12-14T17:29:23+00:00)
Maven home: /usr/local/maven
Java version: 1.7.0_76, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre
Default locale: en, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "2.6.32-042stab090.5", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
git.checkout
0.26s$ git clone --depth=50 --branch=master git://myPrivateRepo/Project
Cloning into 'user/Project'...
remote: Counting objects: 1363, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (9/9), done.
remote: Total 1363 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 1354
Receiving objects: 100% (1363/1363), 874.89 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (263/263), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
$ cd user/Project
$ git checkout -qf commitId
1.56s$ nvm install 0.10
######################################################################## 100.0%
Now using node v0.10.38
$ node --version
v0.10.38
$ npm --version
1.4.28
$ nvm --version
0.23.3
before_install
6.72s$ sudo apt-get install sshpass
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libgeos-3.2.2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  sshpass
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 102 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 56.3 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe sshpass amd64 1.05-1 [10.5 kB]
Fetched 10.5 kB in 0s (234 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package sshpass.
(Reading database ... 75363 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking sshpass (from .../sshpass_1.05-1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up sshpass (1.05-1) ...
install
1.12s$ npm install 
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No description
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No repository field.
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No README data
0.95s$ npm test
> [email protected] test /home/travis/build/user/project
> node test
    First test should fail:   1) First test should fail
  0 passing (8ms)
  1 failing
  1) First test should fail:
      AssertionError: true == false
      + expected - actual
      -true
      +false

      at Context.<anonymous> (test/first.js:8:16)
The command "npm test" exited with 0.
after_success
0.91s$ sudo sshpass -p password ssh root@ip -p 7000
Done. Your build exited with 0.

Answer 1

I see two possible solutions to your problem:

• Switch to the non-container based infrastructure of Travis-CI, by adding sudo: true in your .travis file, so you will be able to install the package you need.
• Ask for the addition of sshpass in the package white list. Request can be done here: https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/labels/apt-whitelist

Answer 2

Can you use an SSH key instead of sshpass? That way you can simply use the SSH key to connect to the Docker container instead of using a password.

Answer 3

sshpass can be installed in a Travis CI container by adding:

addons:
  apt:
    packages:
    - sshpass