Create an SSH key

Creates a new SSH key with the given name and public_key. Once an SSH key is created, it can be used in other calls such as creating Servers.

post/ssh_keys

Request

Base URL: https://api.hetzner.cloud/v1
URL: https://api.hetzner.cloud/v1/ssh_keys
Auth: HTTP bearer

Request body

namestring required

Name of the SSH key.

public_keystring required

Public key.

labelsobject

User-defined labels (key/value pairs) for the Resource. For more information, see "Labels".

Example request

{
  "name": "My ssh key",
  "public_key": "ssh-rsa AAAjjk76kgf...Xt",
  "labels": {
    "environment": "prod",
    "example.com/my": "label",
    "just-a-key": ""
  }
}

Response

Request succeeded.

Example response

{
  "ssh_key": {
    "id": 42,
    "name": "my-resource",
    "fingerprint": "b7:2f:30:a0:2f:6c:58:6c:21:04:58:61:ba:06:3b:2f",
    "public_key": "ssh-rsa AAAjjk76kgf...Xt",
    "labels": {
      "environment": "prod",
      "example.com/my": "label",
      "just-a-key": ""
    },
    "created": "2016-01-30T23:55:00Z"
  }
}

Changes

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