Generating Jelastic SSH keys with PuTTYgen
We’ve just added key-based SSH access to our Jelastic PaaS, and with many of our Windows users using PuTTY as their preferred SSH client it seems a good moment to give a brief PuTTYgen walkthrough. Here’s how to generate SSH keys using PuTTY.
1. Download and open puttygen.exe (included with putty-version-installer.exe, or standalone)
2. Enter the following parameters (the defaults are fine):
New: Jelastic SSH Access
Ever wanted to combine the awesome power of our Jelastic PaaS with command line utilities of the latest generation PHP frameworks, Composer package management, or just enjoy the simple elegance of vim for some on-the-fly last minute edits?
Guess what – now you can! We’ve added an SSH gateway to our platform so now you can log in to any of your Jelastic nodes and configure key based authentication for your git repos, run artisan, and validate your httpd.conf before restarting apache!