Github CI/CD reuse step - github

Question

I'm kinda beginner with CI/CD, but I wrote a code that deploys Vue/Vite project to Ubuntu VPS. But, it's not as it should be. So what am I doing actually?
First as usual, installing the project and building it.
jobs:
build:
name: "Build"
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
- name: Install
run: yarn
- name: Build
run: yarn build
So the problem is when that passes. I'm connecting to ssh like:
deploy:
name: "Deploy"
needs: project_setup
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Deploy to server
uses: appleboy/ssh-action#master
env:
GIT_REPO: Comet-Frontend
GIT_SSH: ${{ github.repositoryUrl }}
with:
host: ${{ secrets.VPS_IP }}
username: ${{ secrets.VPS_USER }}
password: ${{ secrets.VPS_PASSWORD }}
port: ${{ secrets.VPS_PORT }}
envs: GIT_SSH, GIT_REPO
and at the very bottom:
script: |
cd /var/www/vue
git pull
ls
yarn
yarn build
cp -R /root/Frontend/dist /var/www/vue
So I would like to define ssh connection once and run those scripts separately with different step names. Is that possible or I have to connect to ssh for every step?

Answer 1

If each step needs SSH to access either a remote repository URL or your VPS target server, then yes, you would need SSH to each step.
The alternative being to copy a deployment script to the server (through SSH): the steps included in that script could be executed directly on that server (where the script has been copied). No need for SSH then for that script execution, since it is already at target.