In general you have a couple of options to securely connect to a private repository: Only allow SSH login on the repository server; SSH keys are fully supported on bitrise.io Restrict by IP: configure your server to only allow connections from certain IP addresses. We don’t recommend this solutio…

We have a gitlab repository hosted internally, in other words it can only be accessed when connected to our company network, than bitrise can not access our gitlab repo projects. Said that, how to provide just to bitrise the rights to access our gitlab repo? Is that possible? There is some alternati…

Because you mentioned that: in other words it can only be accessed when connected to our company network, than bitrise can not access our gitlab repo projects. You most likely need a VPN, to connect the build environment (virtual machine) to your own private / company network, so that it can acc…

A macOS only solution, which works with the macOS built in vpn was also reported: [image] VPN config works locally on bitrise CLI but fails on bitrise.io Issues I just wanted to follow up and say that although I was never able to get my strongswan config working, I was ab…

i understand that #2 is a generally a bad idea, but how would one go about obtaining the static IPs of the mac build machines? I have the need for part of a PoC for a client and don’t want to go though the hassle of setting up VPNs, etc until the project gets the green light proper

@nhammond run a script on the stack you want to get its IP, e.g. #!/bin/bash set -ex curl ipinfo.io/ip Please note that we can’t guarantee that the IP will not change! On the Linux stacks we use ephemeral IPs so that does change for pretty much every build. On macOS the IP will be the same for ev…

@viktorbenei thanks for that. it’s only iOS for now, and we’ll be looking at other solution going forward but this will get us started.

@nhammond As a temporary solution this should be fine, just don’t forget that the IP might change in the future :wink:

These a new step in the StepLib, that implements OpenVPN connection as a simple step: https://www.bitrise.io/integrations/steps/open-vpn Can be a nice alternative to script based solution if you use OpenVPN.

I get this when following step 1 Failed, error: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Could you please send us a build URL, preferably on our on-site chat or in a different issue thread?

How to configure bitrise to access an internally hosted git repository

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A macOS only solution, which works with the macOS built in vpn was also reported:

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How to configure bitrise to access an internally hosted git repository

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