Deploy with rsync fails consistently

Drone Support
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The following gitea pipeline fails to deploy for me:

 pipeline:
   build:
    image: cbrgm/drone-hugo:latest
    validate: true
    output: /public/
    url: https://<host>
  deploy:
    image: drillster/drone-rsync:latest
    hosts: [ "<host>" ]
    port: 999
    user: khorne
    secrets: [ rsync_key ]
    target: /var/www/<host>/public/
    source: /public
  notify:
    image: drillster/drone-email:latest
    host: <host>
    username: khorne
    secrets: [ email_password ]
    from: drone@<host>
    recipients: [ khorne@<host> ]
    when:
      status: [ changed, failure ]

with the following message:

$ rsync -az -e 'ssh -p 999 -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o LogLevel=quiet -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no' /public khorne@<host>:/var/www/<host>/public/ ...
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [sender=3.1.2]

Not really sure where to proceed from here.
drone exec /path/to/.drone.yaml claims no private key but that is added to secrets with drone secrets add --repository --name rsync_key --value @/home/khorne/.ssh/id_rsa …

Manually running that command outside at least the drone environment succeeds with the same key.

I have no idea whats going wrong where and I’d appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance

2

Are you sure this is related to secrets? The error message sounds like it could also be a networking issue. 0 bytes received sounds like it never established a connection to the host.

Have you researched the specific error any further on sites like stackoverflow? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42850705/why-do-i-get-this-error-while-running-rsync

3

Hi Brad,

No,maybe this is not due to secrets. The drone-scp plugin with identical paths and the same (remapped) secrets works for me.
I guess this is a suitable alternative for me,it fulfils the same purpose. I was curious whether someone had an idea why the rsync plugin doesn’t do it though.

Thanks for your help regardless

4

I’m glad you found a workaround (with the scp plugin). You might also have some luck discussing with the author of the rsync plugin at https://github.com/Drillster/drone-rsync