Linux and Mac OS X both come with support for SSH and SSH keys out of the box. Launchpad uses SSH keys to authenticate your computer with your Launchpad account. This guide shows you how to get that done.
SSH Keys
The first thing you need to do is generate your SSH keypair. A keypair, as the name implies, consists of 2 parts: the public key and the private key.
Adding your SSH key to the ssh-agent. Before adding a new SSH key to the ssh-agent to manage your keys, you should have checked for existing SSH keys and generated a new SSH key. When adding your SSH key to the agent, use the default macOS ssh-add command, and not an application installed by macports, homebrew, or some other external source.
Public Key
Your public key is placed on remote servers so that they can check back with you to see that you are who you say you are.
Private Key
Your private key should NEVER leave your computer! This is the main file that authenticates you. It contains the special unique data that identifies you.
Generating a Keypair
Generating a keypair is very easy.
Launchpad & SSH
When you use Launchpad and Bazaar, it likes to use the SSH keys to authenticate you. We need to add our public key to Launchpad.
Adding Your Public Key to GitLab
And you're done!
More In Depth Example
This is specific to Mac OS X 10.6, but should be similar on any Mac or Linux system.
You generate an SSH key through macOS by using the Terminal application. Once you upload a valid public SSH key, the Triton Compute Service uses SmartLogin to copy the public key to any new SmartMachine you provision.
Joyent recommends RSA keys because the node-manta CLI programs work with RSA keys both locally and with the ssh agent. DSA keys will work only if the private key is on the same system as the CLI, and not password-protected.
About Terminal
Terminal is the terminal emulator which provides a text-based command line interface to the Unix shell of macOS.
To open the macOS Terminal, follow these steps:
The Terminal window opens with the commandline prompt displaying the name of your machine and your username.
Generating an SSH key
An SSH key consists of a pair of files. One is the private key, which should never be shared with anyone. The other is the public key. The other file is a public key which allows you to log into the containers and VMs you provision. When you generate the keys, you will use
ssh-keygen to store the keys in a safe location so you can bypass the login prompt when connecting to your instances.
To generate SSH keys in macOS, follow these steps:
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You will need to enter the passphrase a second time to continue.
After you confirm the passphrase, the system generates the key pair.
Your private key is saved to the
id_rsa file in the .ssh directory and is used to verify the public key you use belongs to the same Triton Compute Service account.
Your public key is saved to the
id_rsa.pub ;file and is the key you upload to your Triton Compute Service account. You can save this key to the clipboard by running this:
Importing your SSH keyMac Os Generate Ssh Key For Gitlab Free
Now you must import the copied SSH key to the portal.
Troubleshooting
You may see a password prompt like this:
This is because:
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What are my next steps?
Right in the portal, you can easily create Docker containers, infrastructure containers, and hardware virtual machines.
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In order to use the Terminal to create instances, set up
triton and CloudAPI as well as the triton-docker commandline tool.
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