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How to share ssh agent with a docker container

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You might want to ssh into a docker container and pull some remote repository which requires the SSH keys stored on the host machine. Edit your docker-compose file as follows:

Set the environment variable SSH_AUTH_SOCK to the socket being used by the agent.
Mount that agent in the container.

services:
  app:
    environment:
      - SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/ssh-agent
    volumes:
      - ${SSH_AUTH_SOCK}:/ssh-agent