Hey folks, I have multiple VMs and personal machines across multiple cloud providers and I’m beginning to get frustrated with ssh key management. Each personal machine has it’s own key so if I lose it or it’s compromised I can just remove the key from the vms but it’s starting to get tedious making sure everything is up to date and any new keys are added.
Are there any solutions out there that would help?
So you do have solutions like teleport which handle SSH authentication but they require external tools. My advice would be to add password authentication to your SSH key and then just use the same SSH key everywhere. It’s not as secure which is true but in my opinion as long as you have good security you will be fine.
(Another solution would be to make an ansible script which generates a new key every X days and distributes them to the servers using acces given by the old key and then removing that old key from authorized keys)