How to call CreateKeyPair to create an SSH key pair

This article introduces how to call CreateKeyPair to create a pair of SSH key pairs, and focuses on the specific steps. The content of this article is compact, and I hope you can gain something.

CreateKeyPair

Create an SSH key pair. We store the public portion of the key for you and return the unencrypted PEM-encoded private key in PKCS#8 format. You need to keep your private key properly. For more details, see SSH Key Pairs.

Description

In addition to calling CreateKeyPair to create a key pair, you can also use a third-party tool to create a key pair and then upload it ( ImportKeyPair) to an Alibaba Cloud region, and its usage is consistent with the key pair we created for you.

The maximum number of key pairs you have in each region is 500.

Request parameters

##Return parameters

Example

Request Example

https://ecs.aliyuncs.com/?Action=CreateKeyPair
&RegionId=cn-qingdao
&KeyPairName=test
&<公共请求参数>

Return example

XML format

<CreateKeyPairResponse>
    <RequestId>473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E</RequestId>
    <KeyPairName>test</KeyPairName>
    <KeyPairFingerPrint>89:f0:ba:62:ac:b8:aa:e1:61:5e:fd:81:69:86:6d:6b:f0:c0:5a:d7</KeyPairFingerPrint>
    <PrivateKeyBody>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</PrivateKeyBody>
</CreateKeyPairResponse>

JSON format

{
    "RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E"
    "KeyPairName": "test"
    "KeyPairFingerPrint": "89:f0:ba:62:ac:b8:aa:e1:61:5e:fd:81:69:86:6d:6b:f0:c0:5a:d7"
    "PrivateKeyBody": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
}

Error code

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