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Add an SSH key

Sometimes you and your team members need to connect to your servers to run commands from the terminal. Add SSH keys to environment servers to ensure secure server access by only the authorized SSH keys.

  1. On Devopness, navigate to a project then select an environment
  2. Find the SSH Keys card
  3. Click View in the SSH Keys card to see a list of existing SSH Keys
  4. On the upper-right corner of the list click ADD SSH KEY
  5. Provide a name to the SSH Key being added. For example, "Company Laptop"
  6. Paste in the public key
  7. Click NEXT
  8. Follow the prompts to complete the configuration of the new SSH Key
  9. Click CONFIRM

Required Permissions

NOTE: To complete the steps in this post, the user needs to have the following permissions in the environment:

Resource TypePermission
SSH KeyAdd

For instructions on how to grant user permissions in an environment, see Add team to an Environment

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📄️ Create an SSH key pair

Sometimes you may need to connect to your servers using an SSH client to run terminal commands on your remote server. An SSH public key is used for secure authentication when you use an SSH client to connect to a server managed by Devopness. When you connect, you must provide the private key that matches the public key added to the remote server. Create an SSH private/public key pair to securely authenticate your server access on the new device. Several tools exist to generate SSH public/private key pairs. The following steps show how to generate an SSH key pair on UNIX and UNIX-like platforms.