When creating a droplet via the API, you can pass in an SSH key.
What is the format of the key? I am guessing it would be like this, based on return value of the List All Keys API:
{“ssh_keys”:[{“id”:263654,“fingerprint”:“11:37:44:86:62:15:86:5f:0c:7d:41:0b:39:cb:3c:44”,“public_key”:“ssh-rsa ZZZB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQC6vHxLRqVEN2Ze9f8ii634wP5f0Ysua+zqcedJFy8D6/biGE2b0pr0fZoB0lyypu3d6uxt8DvxNNRSgcDiZ6JUoTqPWVY252xgaykghBuNsTSFboAT+c/J9/8GQnTJx5PbiUAMeOBsQ6bU3rkhidhsxDyUzp8PyvTHZxopuCZ/QD/qTRgnpXLiV5/RiKMfg69dRLpG9nTWAfXKb4cwBQesPvfSzPemyMWorkLRbnGlDH3s81yIRNDTO9/LKMIPov715lXF4njbvazSnqjLMLNW4MTvSpUt6LFBv4gKCHgqK0V68QV4Py6BDWhpI0nyzZRlnAxKThbJ3nGDThc4d8m5x tom@tomsmacbook.local”,“name”:“For tomsmacbook”}],“links”:{},“meta”:{“total”:1}}
I am still a little fuzzy about SSH and so am not sure exactly what SSH key to pass in. I am guessing I want it to be the public key file (named id_rsa.pub by default) that was created at the same time as the private key my machine uses?
Thanks much.
P.S. Key contents, machine IDs, etc. were changed to protect the innocent.
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hi, instead of the actual key you have to send the ID of the key.
This works for me:
It works for me when use the following;
curl -X POST “https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets” -d’{“name”:“server1.example.com”,“region”:“nyc3”,“size”:“512mb”,“image”:“centos-6-5-x64”,“ssh_keys”:[“95:0d:c5:a9::xxxx:xxxx:f7:fa”]}’ -H “Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN” -H “Content-Type: application/json”
$TOKEN is my API key