If you are a beginner using Aws opsworks,i'm sure you've had your fair share of the troubles i had setting up my app on aws because I didn’t know how to manage my key pair. I generated ssh key pair, put the public key on bitbucket and the private key on the ssh key text field but aws kept flagging error.
Here’s what I did to fix it:
I realized that my generation process was faulty because it kept generating OPENSSH key instead of RSA, So i used this command instead:
ssh-keygen -m PEM -t rsa(#Check if you already have an ssh key:cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)
- Press the ENTER key to accept the default location. The ssh-keygen utility prompts you for a passphrase. Type in a passphrase. You can also hit the ENTER key to accept the default (no passphrase).
You will need to enter the passphrase a second time to continue. After you confirm the passphrase, the system generates the key pair. Your identification has been saved in /Users/myname/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /Users/myname/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: ae:89:72:0b:85:da:5a:f4:7c:1f:c2:43:fd:c6:44:38 myname@mymac.local The key's randomart image is: +--[ RSA 2048]----+ | | | . | | E . | | . . o | | o . . S . | | + + . + | |. + o = o + | | o...o * o | |. oo.o . | +-----------------+ Your private key is saved to the id_rsa file in the .ssh directory
Copy the public key to your bitbucket repository and paste it under access keys with this command cat ~/ssh/id_rsa or pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Next, copy the private key to AWS Opsworks and paste it on the opsworks app ssh key text field.
…and Voila (That’s it)
You can thank me later!!