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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.

Generate

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a basic key pair for private cloud

On Linux you can create an a basic RSA key for SSH in a test environment in Linux using the following command.

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By default the keys will be saved in a folder such as ~/.ssh and the public key in a file such as ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

Generate a key pair for public cloud

When you generate a key pair for public cloud, you should use a pass phrase.

For AWS, you can generate your own key pair or get AWS to generate one for you. See  http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/generating-a-keypair.html

For Azure, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/create-ssh-keys-detailed

For GCP, see https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/connect/create-ssh-keys

For OCI, see https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/cloud/compute-iaas/generating_ssh_key/generate_ssh_key.html

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.

ssh-keygen -m PEM -t rsa -b 4096

For GCP and OCI, you can use a 2048 bit RSA key, which you can generate with a command like this one.

ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa

Add your public key to Abiquo

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• Edit an Abiquo user who will use the public datacenter. There are two ways to edit a user:

  1. In Users view, by selecting the enterprise name, then the user name and clicking the edit button OR

  2. If allowed in your installation, cloud users can edit their user details by clicking on the user name in the top right-bottom left hand corner of the screen

• Enter the RSA public key for the user

• The user should keep the private key in a safe place and supply it to access their virtual machinesVMs