Pipeline: Creds-init container process caused "invalid value "tekton-ssh-key={my own gitlab domain name}" for flag -ssh-git: exit status 1"

[gejunqiang]

Expected Behavior

The task run normally.

Actual Behavior

The creds-init container step-credential-initializer (using the image of gcr.io/tekton-releases/github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/cmd/creds-init@sha256:c8544b7182b53608f7b71f42c31295d8bf534ceeed14be735977c7e289fd37b7) is alway Error !

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. Follow the step: https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/blob/master/docs/tutorial.md#task-inputs-and-outputs
2. For the url of git PipelineResource, I use a domain of self-hosted instance of GitLab such as 'test.gjq.com'， rather than the 'gitlab.com' or 'github.com'
3. my secret of git ssh-auth looks like this:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: tekton-ssh-key
  annotations:
    tekton.dev/git-0: test.gjq.com
type: kubernetes.io/ssh-auth
data:
  ssh-privatekey: LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBPUEVOU1NI.....

Additional Info

1. logs of the init container step-credential-initializer-qnnhz are shown as below:

invalid value "tekton-ssh-key=test.gjq.com" for flag -ssh-git: exit status 1
Usage of /ko-app/creds-init:
  -alsologtostderr
        log to standard error as well as files
  -basic-docker value
        List of secret=url pairs.
  -basic-git value
        List of secret=url pairs.
  -docker-cfg string
        Docker .dockercfg secret file.
  -docker-config string
        Docker config.json secret file.
  -log_backtrace_at value
        when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace
  -log_dir string
        If non-empty, write log files in this directory
  -logtostderr
        log to standard error instead of files
  -ssh-git value
        List of secret=url pairs.
  -stderrthreshold value
        logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
  -v value
        log level for V logs
  -vmodule value
        comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging

1. container details:

Init Containers:
  step-credential-initializer-qnnhz:
    Container ID:  docker://dd6fe9786a55d1353469790733c8a0cf08e7de32552d44d7b4dce819238cacee
    Image:         gcr.io/tekton-releases/github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/cmd/creds-init@sha256:c8544b7182b53608f7b71f42c31295d8bf534ceeed14be735977c7e289fd37b7
    Image ID:      docker-pullable://gcr.io/tekton-releases/github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/cmd/creds-init@sha256:c8544b7182b53608f7b71f42c31295d8bf534ceeed14be735977c7e289fd37b7
    Port:          <none>
    Host Port:     <none>
    Command:
      /ko-app/creds-init
    Args:
      -ssh-git=tekton-ssh-key=test.gjq.com
      -basic-docker=tekton-basic-user-pass-registry=hub.c.163.com
    State:          Terminated
      Reason:       Error
      Exit Code:    2
      Started:      Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:45:35 +0800
      Finished:     Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:45:36 +0800
    Ready:          False
    Restart Count:  0
    Environment:
      HOME:  /builder/home
    Mounts:
      /builder/home from home (rw)
      /var/build-secrets/tekton-basic-user-pass-registry from secret-volume-tekton-basic-user-pass-registry-hz5q8 (rw)
      /var/build-secrets/tekton-ssh-key from secret-volume-tekton-ssh-key-5mpj6 (rw)
      /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount from tekton-git-and-registry-token-lltqh (ro)
      /workspace from workspace (rw)

1. I have tried 'github.com' and 'gitlab.com' , it works well. And I tried another domain called 'gjq.com', it works well too。 So maybe it doesn't support subdomain ?

[vdemeester]

/kind bug

[gejunqiang]

Additional Info Again

when I add the "known_hosts" data into my Secret:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: tekton-ssh-key
  annotations:
    tekton.dev/git-0: test.gjq.com
type: kubernetes.io/ssh-auth
data:
  ssh-privatekey: LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBPUEVOU1NI...
  known_hosts: W2cuaHoubmV0ZWFzZS5jb21dO...

It works !

[vdemeester]

@gejunqiang thanks for the additional info. creds-init should add the know_hosts, so my guess is, it is not creating the correct one, most likely…

[jpds]

There are some instances where we can't add known_hosts to our YAMLs (I'm looking at you, GitHub...)

[bobcatfish]

@dibyom are you still working on this or can we throw it back in the backlog?

[kostyaplis]

@dibyom We've been hitting by the same error for quite a long time...
We are using Github Actions to invoke about 40 TaskRuns on each PR to perform build/test.
Some of them (randomly?) failing on credential-initializer container with following error in logs:

invalid value "tekton-github-ssh=github.com" for flag -ssh-git: exit status 1
Usage of /ko-app/creds-init:
  -basic-docker value
        List of secret=url pairs.
  -basic-git value
        List of secret=url pairs.
  -docker-cfg string
        Docker .dockercfg secret file.
  -docker-config string
        Docker config.json secret file.
  -ssh-git value
        List of secret=url pairs.

For past 4 weeks there were at least 50 TaskRuns failed with the same issue.
Currently we running tekton-pipelines:v0.10.1 on GKE 1.15.9-gke.26
Any advise on how to debug this issue further would be highly appreciated.

[Fabian-K]

Hi, I was also facing this issue. We have a corporate github instance and this is reproducible whenever my VPN connection is not available. Maybe this info helps!

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[sbwsg]

The reason this error occurred was when ssh-keyscan couldn't reach a server over the internet (fixed by f112277e9). And the reason it appeared as a generic flag error was because we silently swallowed it during flag initialization (fixed by 1caf5bffe).

I'm reasonably confident we can safely consider this issue resolved now. Sorry for the churn!