Learning Windows Server Containers

Generate SSH key

ACS supports only Linux workloads. Microsoft is working on the implementation of an enabling ACS for Windows Worker nodes as well. To connect to Linux worker node, we would need an SSH key. There are many ways to create a SSH key from a Windows machine, one such way is by using Git bash for Windows tool. You can down the tool from https://desktop.github.com/.

To generate SSH key, open the Git bash under elevated mode and run the following command:

    ssh-keygen

By default, ssh-keygen creates the public/private RSA key in a .ssh folder in the user's directory. There will be two files created under this directory named id_rsa (private), id_rsa.pub (public). You can choose to override the file location or name, hit Enter to ...