Working in a Google Cloud VM

Keygen

https://gitlab.com/-/profile/keys

ssh-keygen 
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Testing your ssh connection setup

$ ssh  git@gitlab.com
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
Welcome to GitLab, @deanturpin!
Connection to gitlab.com closed.

If this hangs, set this:

export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=

This combo is OK.

OpenSSH_8.4p1 Debian-5+deb11u1, OpenSSL 1.1.1n  15 Mar 2022

On Debian

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`d$$'     ,$P"'   .    $$$    Uptime: 8 mins 
 $$P      d$'     ,    $$P    Packages: 332 (dpkg) 
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 Y$$.    `.`"Y$$$$P"'         CPU: Intel Xeon Platinum 8481C (4) @ 2.699GHz 
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echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK 
/tmp/ssh-FY0M4AWdBE/agent.693

This combo is not good

Hang in rekey.

$ ssh -Tvvv git@gitlab.com |& head
OpenSSH_9.0p1 Ubuntu-1ubuntu7.1, OpenSSL 3.0.5 5 Jul 2022

debug1: Host 'gitlab.com' is known and matches the ED25519 host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/djturpin/.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug3: send packet: type 21
debug2: ssh_set_newkeys: mode 1
debug1: rekey out after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug3: receive packet: type 21
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug2: ssh_set_newkeys: mode 0
debug1: rekey in after 134217728 blocks

Cloning

Whilst cloning via https might just work, for ssh you will need to configure the firewall.

# https
git clone https://gitlab.com/germs-dev/deanturpin.git

# ssh
git clone git@gitlab.com:germs-dev/deanturpin.git