tasalloti / ansible

Generate an ssh key

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "My New Key!"

Copy the ssh key to the server(s)

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

Generate an ssh key that’s going to be specifically used for Ansible

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "ansible"

Copy the ssh key to the server(s)

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/ansible.pub

Use an SSH key to connect to a server

ssh -i .ssh/<key_name>

To cache the passphrase for our session, we can use the ssh agent

eval $(ssh-agent) ssh-add

Here’s an alias you can put in your .bashrc, to simplify it

alias ssha='eval $(ssh-agent) && ssh-add'