action-send-mail VS ssh-agent

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You can send a report by e-mail using Dawid Dziurla's contribution, but keep in mind that the username and password for authentication on the mail server must be present as secrets in your repository. This step can also be observed in our example.

Email notification is executed via action-send-mail.

Dawid Dziurla has published a Github action that allows us to configure a lot of aspects related to sending the emails. We just need to add the below step to our workflow:

Once the image has been built and pushed, you only need to trigger the deployment using Kamal. We use the webfactory/ssh-agent to establish a connection to our production server. After installing the required Ruby dependencies, it’s only a matter of running Kamal. As the image is already built and pushed, we use the --skip-push flag.

When using Github Actions, to build projects I have been using the ssh-agent approach (https://github.com/webfactory/ssh-agent), with this means the Cargo.toml looks like this:

Thankfully when I reached out on Twitter, Jonathan Carter on the Codespaces team, seemed to suggest they may be working on a native SSH integration one day. Till then, here is the solution I came up with. This process address some sequencing issues around devcontainer.json's Lifecycle Scripts and when your Dotfiles are installed. Credit to VS Codes Using SSH Keys guide. Also, some things here are pulled directly from the GitHub Action to setup SSH. Again, thanks to Johnathan Carter for the ideas.