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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 SSH key pair.
See your cloud provider documentation for more details. 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 launch time.
The user must keep the corresponding private key in a safe place and use it to access the VM.
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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. For AWS, you can generate your own key pair or get AWS to generate one for you. See
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Generate a key pair for public cloud
When you generate a key pair for public cloud, you should use a pass phrase. In some cloud providers you can use a key pair that the cloud provider generates for you.
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Examples of commands to generate key pairs
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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ssh-keygen -m PEM -t rsa -b 4096 |
For GCP and OCI, you can use a 2048 bit RSA key, which you could generate with a command like this one.
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ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa |
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Add your public key to Abiquo
To save a public key in Abiquo:
Edit an Abiquo user
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with one of these two ways to edit a user:
In Users view, by selecting the enterprise name, then the user
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Click the user
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bottom left-hand corner of the screen
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and select Edit user
Go to the Advanced tab and enter the public key for the user
The user should keep the private key in a safe place and supply it to access their
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VMs