July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
402 pages
9h 38m
English
By default, Amazon EC2 uses ssh key pairs to give you ssh access to your EC2 instances. You can either generate a key pair in EC2 and download the private key or generate a key yourself using a third-party tool such as OpenSSL and import the public key in EC2. We will use the first method:
$ aws ec2 create-key-pair --key-name EffectiveDevOpsAWS
{
"KeyMaterial": "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- \nMIIEogIBAAKCAQEAo6vZQ0BxnqdfZOSdcI66KRvypX0NwH5IEi6GUw06+
[...]
sj4FAZVLp4OpaIeg+DxHaXUMx\njVHiSRmxmXv2NJAaiJr/q4wMq+eUq3WLn/DKbIPWkfB5lqnGF2T/biie7igSvder3xE=\n-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----",
"KeyName": "EffectiveDevOpsAWS",
"KeyFingerprint": "d2:ec:b5:07:af:83:74:4c:9c:5f:d1:3c:37:86:1b:f0:9c:1b:c1:cf"
}
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