» alicloud_key_pair

Provides a key pair resource.

» Example Usage

Basic Usage

resource "alicloud_key_pair" "basic" {
    key_name = "terraform-test-key-pair"
}

// Using name prefix to build key pair
resource "alicloud_key_pair" "prefix" {
    key_name_prefix = "terraform-test-key-pair-prefix"
}

// Import an existing public key to build a alicloud key pair
resource "alicloud_key_pair" "publickey" {
    key_name = "my_public_key"
    public_key = "ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nza12345678qwertyuudsfsg"
}

» Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

  • key_name - (ForceNew) The key pair's name. It is the only in one Alicloud account.
  • key_name_prefix - (ForceNew) The key pair name's prefix. It is conflict with key_name. If it is specified, terraform will using it to build the only key name.
  • public_key - (ForceNew) You can import an existing public key and using Alicloud key pair to manage it.
  • key_file - (ForceNew) The name of file to save your new key pair's private key. Strongly suggest you to specified it when you creating key pair, otherwise, you wouldn't get its private key ever.

» Attributes Reference

» Import

Key pair can be imported using the name, e.g.

$ terraform import alicloud_key_pair.example my_public_key