appleboy/ssh-action

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6178 stars · 680 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A GitHub Action for executing remote SSH commands within CI/CD workflows, built with Go and drone-ssh. It supports password and key authentication, multi-host execution, proxy/jump hosts, and environment variable passing.

Use cases

• run remote ssh commands from a github actions workflow
• deploy to a server via ssh in ci/cd
• execute commands on multiple hosts from github actions
• restart a service on a remote server after a build
• run a deployment script on a vps from ci

When to choose

• you need to trigger remote shell commands or deployments as part of a GitHub Actions pipeline
• you want multi-host or proxy/jump-host SSH support without writing custom scripts
• you need password, RSA, or ED25519 key authentication in CI

When to avoid

• you use a CI system other than GitHub Actions
• you need full interactive SSH sessions rather than one-shot command execution
• you prefer managing deployments with a dedicated tool like Ansible or Fabric

Facets

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