Before starting with the OpenNebula configuration, we should set up an SSH Key Pair, an X.509 certificate, and the Amazon EC2 API Tools.
The first requirement to access our future EC2 instances is to create a new SSH Key Pair (or import your existing ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
generated via ssh-keygen
). The key pair will be used to identify yourself when connecting via ssh
to a Linux-based AMI, or to decrypt the default administrator password in a Windows-based AMI.
From the EC2 tab on the Management Console, access the Key Pairs section.
Either click on Create Key and save it somewhere on your desktop/laptop, or click on Import Key Pair to proceed with uploading your public SSH key.
For highest security, you should create a new SSH Key Pair on your local machine, and only submit the public key to AWS. However, letting Amazon generate a new key pair is easy and the private key is downloadable for one time only (if you lose it, you need...