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SSH keys to create and access VMs in public cloud
To To access your VMs in many public cloud providers, such as AWS, you must have an RSA key pair.
For example, for AWS, see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstances.html:.
When you deploy a VM, Abiquo launches it in the provider with a key pair. To connect to the VM, you will need the private key file of the key pair that you selected when you launched the instance.
Abiquo stores a public key for a user and automatically adds it to VMs at deploy time.
The user must keep the corresponding private key in a safe place and use it to access the VM.
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When you generate a key pair for public cloud, you should use a pass phrase. For AWS, In some cloud providers you can generate your own key pair or get AWS to generate one use a key pair that the cloud provider generates for you. See
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Generally, for AWS and Azure, you could use a 4096 bit RSA key in PEM format, which for Linux and Mac you can generate with a command like this one.
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