Introduction When working on cloud infrastructure, your primary concern is making sure your applications are fully operational. One important inclusion of your setup and deployment process is to build effective, thorough, and robust security measures into your apps or systems before they are offered to the public. Instead of retroactively implementing security measures post-deployment, it is important to ensure that …
Configuring Your Linux Server to Use SSH Key-Based Authentication
SSH on a Linux Server SSH, also known as secure shell, is a protocol that can be used to connect and communicate with a server. You can connect to your Linux server for a terminal session using this encrypted protocol. If you are using an OpenSSH server, there are primarily two different ways you can go about the authentication process. …
How To Use SSH to Connect to a Remote Server in Ubuntu
What is SSH? SSH means Secure Shell. With SSH you can access remote machines in a secure way since the connection is encrypted. With the ssh command from the Linux terminal, we can connect to remote Linux servers and work as if it were our computer. At the end of this tutorial, you should have a full understanding of how …
Automatically Inject SSH Keys into your Cloud Servers Using This Simple Bash Script
You can use bash to automate many things for your cloud servers. At CloudSigma we use bash scripts with many of our library images to automate useful features. In this post we share with you how you can use bash to import SSH keys automatically on boot-up of your cloud servers. You can achieve this by combining bash scripts with …