When deploying from a Git repo, is there a way to upload a private key file that's not in your repo

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Also, here’s an explicit example of how to put a private key into variables, to use in the build! I prefer separate variables to trying to handle the \n in the quoted string(s) since that is so hard to handle in the shell. 28 year shell scripting professional here…so I have a ton of baggage

[Support Guide] Using an SSH key via environment variable during build

Last checked by Netlify Support Team: December 2022 Some workflows require use of an SSH private key during build - for instance, logging in to a server to restart your backend, or using git clone on a private repo during build. There are better ways to accomplish this goal for most use cases, but in case you choose to do that, below is an approach that can work. First, create an ssh key and add the public key (shorter one) to your service (e.g. on your GitHub repo settings, or in ~/.ssh/auth…