Hi All,

I guess this question has been asked for many times but I did not find an answer.

I need my Linux hosts to have SSH keys ready (so i can deploy chef)

How can i define the authorized keys to the machine will be installed with them?

Thanks

You can read about setting up SSH authentication here: https://www.linode.com/docs/security/us ... n-with-ssh

adir is probably referring to other cloud providers that allow you to seed a standard image with a known SSH key so that installs (via chef for example) can be automated. Linode doesn't have that functionality specifically but you can easily craft something up yourself using Linode https://linode.com/StackScripts. There are a bunch of community stack scripts available and I'm sure some of them already do what you are looking for but I didn't look carefully.

This script might be a good place to start: https://www.linode.com/stackscripts/view/165

in addition to setting up custom StackScripts to deploy Linodes with keys in place, you could also use the Linode Vagrant provider plugin.

https://linode.com/docs/applications/co ... vironments

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James Stewart
Linode Docs Team

No need to mess with StackScripts or Vagrant prioviders. You can do this via the Linode API:

https://www.linode.com/api/linode/linod ... stribution

Specifically, the 'rootSSHKey' optional parameter.

-Chris