This guide describes how to prepare to access the virtual machines using the previously generated public and private SSH keys.

For Windows users with PuTTY.
For Linux and Mac users.

1. Windows Users with PuTTY

The SSH client PuTTY is a simple and free program to access the started instances via SSH on Windows.

PuTTY Installation
Download the PuTTY program. There are two ways to do this:

Go, for example, to the main site putty.org and click on the link Download PuTTY.

The page that opens will point you to the sources.

Option 1: Source 'MSI (Windows Installer)':
Save the appropriate installer for your system (usually 64-bit x86).
Start the installation process.
Launch the PuTTY program.

Option 2: Source 'putty.exe (the SSH and Telnet client itself)':
Save the corresponding installer for your system (64-bit x86).
Start the program/file putty.exe directly.

PuTTY Setup

Start PuTTY.
In the left menu tree, click on Connection → SSH → Auth.
Click the Browse button under the text "Private key file for authentication." Select the file with your private SSH key.

If you don’t want to repeat this process every time, we recommend saving your current PuTTY settings as a profile. To do this, click the top item Session in the left menu tree.
Name your current settings (and session) with your own name and/or click the Save button.

Now restart PuTTY. The previously selected private SSH key will be pre-selected again.

[Translate to English:]

Add the following content to your SSH configuration file ~/.ssh/config. Create the file if it does not already exist.

Host myVM01
   HostName <IP>
   User debian
   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/myKey

Replace <IP> with the IP address of your instance.