Create an EC2 key pair

You can associate a specific SSH key pair with control plane or node pool instances during creation.

To generate an asymmetric private key and import its public key into AWS, run the following commands:

 ssh-keygen -t rsa -m PEM -b 4096 -C " COMMENT 
" \
      -f SSH_PRIVATE_KEY 
-N "" 1>/dev/null

aws ec2 import-key-pair --key-name SSH_KEY_PAIR_NAME 
\
      --public-key-material fileb:// SSH_PRIVATE_KEY 
.pub 

Replace the following:

• SSH_PRIVATE_KEY : a file name to save the key in
• SSH_KEY_PAIR_NAME : a name you choose for the key pair
• COMMENT : a text string describing the key

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