SSH Key Configurations for GCP Devices

if the devices imported from gcp have the required configuration to log in with an ssh key, kron pam can provide a seamless connection to the device otherwise, the global username and password need to be defined for each device group to use an ssh key for gcp devices get the ssh key name stored in the device properties of each device navigate to devices > inventory select the gcp device , and click the options button (the device’s ssh key name is stored in the sshkeyname property ) write down the value of this property to be used for the sapm module enable ssh key connection to device groups navigate to devices > inventory select the device group the gcp devices are imported to and click the options button add the adddevicesshkeytouserselection property and set the value as true upload ssh key to kron pam and enable connection to the device navigate to secrets > vault fill in the required fields (the account name field must be exactly equal to the value of sshkeyname in the device property) select static ssh key in the configuration field copy the contents of the ssh key into the ssh key field the ssh keys must be in the openssh key format this means that the value put into the secret data field should start with the “ begin ssh2 public key ” and end with the “ end ssh2 public key ” indicators