SSH Public Keys - Add to PVE Guest during provisioning

[8bitUpsurge]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Answer: SSH Key feature should exist, for security at core, as major VPS provisioning modules and panels support them in today's world, it is also required by people to secure their servers.

Describe the solution you'd like

Answer: Clients should be able to add their own SSH Key to the server during the order process, they should be able to add, remove or add additional keys from the product page as well.

[lsthompson]

This should be doable if you're using cloud-init for new deployments onto PVE.

I don't see a clean way to do it without CI. Please let me know your thoughts.

[8bitUpsurge]

Hello Luke, I actually don't know any other way of doing this because I don't really develop for PVE, but I would like to use this module in production once it's fully polished 🙂.

[lsthompson]

(QEMU) https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/api-viewer/index.html#/nodes/{node}/qemu > POST

sshkeys (string)

cloud-init: Setup public SSH keys
(one key per line, OpenSSH format)

(LXC) https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/api-viewer/index.html#/nodes/{node}/lxc > POST

ssh-public-keys (string)

Setup public SSH keys
(one key per line, OpenSSH format)

(SQL) Need new column/s for key storage, depending on how granular key selection is?

[SmilerRyan]

I have a similar question, on a QEMU Windows machine template with a drive added.
How can i create an account or password with cloud-init or other means automatically?

Though the Proxmox VM i've installed the cloud-init msi and added a cloud-init drive with configuration.
After rebuilding the image and restarting the machine it does not seem to create a user or change the administrator password.

These are the instructions that I've been following from: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Cloud-Init_Support#_cloud_init_on_windows