sshkeygen.md

🔐 Resource Documentation: portainer_sshkeygen

Overview

The portainer_sshkeygen resource allows you to generate a public/private SSH keypair using the Portainer API.

Useful for secure deployments and automations where keys must be generated dynamically in a reproducible and managed way.

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📘 Example Usage

resource "portainer_sshkeygen" "generated" {}

output "public_key" {
  value = portainer_sshkeygen.generated.public
}

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⚙️ Lifecycle & Behavior

• Create: generates SSH keypair via POST /sshkeygen

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🧾 Arguments Reference

This resource accepts no input arguments.

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📤 Attributes Reference

Note: The private key is marked as sensitive, so it won't be shown unless you run terraform output --sensitive.

Name	Description
public	The generated SSH public key
private	The generated SSH private key (sensitive)
id	Arbitrary ID derived from key length