Solved! The problem was that sshd in Gitlab docker instance uses /assets/sshd_config instead of /etc/ssh/sshd_config

sshd_ Config Configuration not effective

yuepingt1987 October 26, 2023, 1:44am 6

it seems gitlab_sshd run in port 22 in the containter.

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