Add SSH key

Add an SSH key

To use an existing key pair, enter the public key for the public_key property of the request body.

To generate a new key pair, omit the public_key property from the request body. Save the private_key from the response somewhere secure. For example, with curl:

curl https://cloud.lambdalabs.com/api/v1/ssh-keys \
  --fail \
  -u ${LAMBDA_API_KEY}: \
  -X POST \
  -d '{"name": "new key"}' \
  | jq -r '.data.private_key' > key.pem

chmod 400 key.pem

Then, after you launch an instance with new key attached to it:

ssh -i key.pem <instance IP>

{
  "name": "newly-generated-key"
}

{
  "data": {
    "id": "0920582c7ff041399e34823a0be62548",
    "name": "newly-generated-key",
    "public_key": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDfKpav4ILY54InZe27G user",
    "private_key": "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\nKEY CONTENT-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\n"
  }
}