https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-key-pair

Terraform Module to Automatically Generate SSH Key Pairs (Public/Private Keys)
https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-key-pair

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Terraform Module to Automatically Generate SSH Key Pairs (Public/Private Keys)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-key-pair
• Owner: cloudposse
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2017-08-28T11:47:54.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-19T03:08:04.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-30T15:22:39.490Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: aws, hcl2, ssh-keygen, ssh-keys, terraform, terraform-modules
• Language: HCL
• Homepage: https://cloudposse.com/accelerate
• Size: 2.12 MB
• Stars: 150
• Watchers: 21
• Forks: 72
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS

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Terraform module for generating or importing an SSH public key file into AWS.

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## Usage

```hcl

module "ssh_key_pair" {

  source = "cloudposse/key-pair/aws"

  # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version

  # version     = "x.x.x"

  namespace             = "eg"

  stage                 = "prod"

  name                  = "app"

  ssh_public_key_path   = "/secrets"

  generate_ssh_key      = "true"

  private_key_extension = ".pem"

  public_key_extension  = ".pub"

}

```

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## Makefile Targets

```text

Available targets:

  help                                Help screen

  help/all                            Display help for all targets

  help/short                          This help short screen

  lint                                Lint terraform code

```

## Requirements

| Name | Version |

|------|---------|

|  [terraform](#requirement\_terraform) | >= 1.0 |

|  [aws](#requirement\_aws) | >= 3.0 |

|  [local](#requirement\_local) | >= 2.2.1 |

|  [null](#requirement\_null) | >= 2.1 |

|  [tls](#requirement\_tls) | >= 2.0 |

## Providers

| Name | Version |

|------|---------|

|  [aws](#provider\_aws) | >= 3.0 |

|  [local](#provider\_local) | >= 2.2.1 |

|  [tls](#provider\_tls) | >= 2.0 |

## Modules

| Name | Source | Version |

|------|--------|---------|

|  [this](#module\_this) | cloudposse/label/null | 0.25.0 |

## Resources

| Name | Type |

|------|------|

| [aws_key_pair.generated](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/key_pair) | resource |

| [aws_key_pair.imported](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/key_pair) | resource |

| [aws_ssm_parameter.private_key](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/ssm_parameter) | resource |

| [local_file.public_key_openssh](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/local/latest/docs/resources/file) | resource |

| [local_sensitive_file.private_key_pem](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/local/latest/docs/resources/sensitive_file) | resource |

| [tls_private_key.default](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/tls/latest/docs/resources/private_key) | resource |

## Inputs

| Name | Description | Type | Default | Required |

|------|-------------|------|---------|:--------:|

|  [additional\_tag\_map](#input\_additional\_tag\_map) | Additional key-value pairs to add to each map in `tags_as_list_of_maps`. Not added to `tags` or `id`.
This is for some rare cases where resources want additional configuration of tags
and therefore take a list of maps with tag key, value, and additional configuration. | `map(string)` | `{}` | no |

|  [attributes](#input\_attributes) | ID element. Additional attributes (e.g. `workers` or `cluster`) to add to `id`,
in the order they appear in the list. New attributes are appended to the
end of the list. The elements of the list are joined by the `delimiter`
and treated as a single ID element. | `list(string)` | `[]` | no |

|  [context](#input\_context) | Single object for setting entire context at once.
See description of individual variables for details.
Leave string and numeric variables as `null` to use default value.
Individual variable settings (non-null) override settings in context object,
except for attributes, tags, and additional\_tag\_map, which are merged. | `any` | 
{
  "additional_tag_map": {},
  "attributes": [],
  "delimiter": null,
  "descriptor_formats": {},
  "enabled": true,
  "environment": null,
  "id_length_limit": null,
  "label_key_case": null,
  "label_order": [],
  "label_value_case": null,
  "labels_as_tags": [
    "unset"
  ],
  "name": null,
  "namespace": null,
  "regex_replace_chars": null,
  "stage": null,
  "tags": {},
  "tenant": null
}
 | no |

|  [delimiter](#input\_delimiter) | Delimiter to be used between ID elements.
Defaults to `-` (hyphen). Set to `""` to use no delimiter at all. | `string` | `null` | no |

|  [descriptor\_formats](#input\_descriptor\_formats) | Describe additional descriptors to be output in the `descriptors` output map.
Map of maps. Keys are names of descriptors. Values are maps of the form
`{
   format = string
   labels = list(string)
}`
(Type is `any` so the map values can later be enhanced to provide additional options.)
`format` is a Terraform format string to be passed to the `format()` function.
`labels` is a list of labels, in order, to pass to `format()` function.
Label values will be normalized before being passed to `format()` so they will be
identical to how they appear in `id`.
Default is `{}` (`descriptors` output will be empty). | `any` | `{}` | no |

|  [enabled](#input\_enabled) | Set to false to prevent the module from creating any resources | `bool` | `null` | no |

|  [environment](#input\_environment) | ID element. Usually used for region e.g. 'uw2', 'us-west-2', OR role 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', 'UAT' | `string` | `null` | no |

|  [generate\_ssh\_key](#input\_generate\_ssh\_key) | If set to `true`, new SSH key pair will be created and `ssh_public_key_file` will be ignored | `bool` | `false` | no |

|  [id\_length\_limit](#input\_id\_length\_limit) | Limit `id` to this many characters (minimum 6).
Set to `0` for unlimited length.
Set to `null` for keep the existing setting, which defaults to `0`.
Does not affect `id_full`. | `number` | `null` | no |

|  [label\_key\_case](#input\_label\_key\_case) | Controls the letter case of the `tags` keys (label names) for tags generated by this module.
Does not affect keys of tags passed in via the `tags` input.
Possible values: `lower`, `title`, `upper`.
Default value: `title`. | `string` | `null` | no |

|  [label\_order](#input\_label\_order) | The order in which the labels (ID elements) appear in the `id`.
Defaults to ["namespace", "environment", "stage", "name", "attributes"].
You can omit any of the 6 labels ("tenant" is the 6th), but at least one must be present. | `list(string)` | `null` | no |

|  [label\_value\_case](#input\_label\_value\_case) | Controls the letter case of ID elements (labels) as included in `id`,
set as tag values, and output by this module individually.
Does not affect values of tags passed in via the `tags` input.
Possible values: `lower`, `title`, `upper` and `none` (no transformation).
Set this to `title` and set `delimiter` to `""` to yield Pascal Case IDs.
Default value: `lower`. | `string` | `null` | no |

|  [labels\_as\_tags](#input\_labels\_as\_tags) | Set of labels (ID elements) to include as tags in the `tags` output.
Default is to include all labels.
Tags with empty values will not be included in the `tags` output.
Set to `[]` to suppress all generated tags.
**Notes:**
  The value of the `name` tag, if included, will be the `id`, not the `name`.
  Unlike other `null-label` inputs, the initial setting of `labels_as_tags` cannot be
  changed in later chained modules. Attempts to change it will be silently ignored. | `set(string)` | 
[
  "default"
]
 | no |

|  [name](#input\_name) | ID element. Usually the component or solution name, e.g. 'app' or 'jenkins'.
This is the only ID element not also included as a `tag`.
The "name" tag is set to the full `id` string. There is no tag with the value of the `name` input. | `string` | `null` | no |

|  [namespace](#input\_namespace) | ID element. Usually an abbreviation of your organization name, e.g. 'eg' or 'cp', to help ensure generated IDs are globally unique | `string` | `null` | no |

|  [private\_key\_extension](#input\_private\_key\_extension) | Private key extension | `string` | `""` | no |

|  [public\_key\_extension](#input\_public\_key\_extension) | Public key extension | `string` | `".pub"` | no |

|  [regex\_replace\_chars](#input\_regex\_replace\_chars) | Terraform regular expression (regex) string.
Characters matching the regex will be removed from the ID elements.
If not set, `"/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/"` is used to remove all characters other than hyphens, letters and digits. | `string` | `null` | no |

|  [ssh\_key\_algorithm](#input\_ssh\_key\_algorithm) | SSH key algorithm | `string` | `"RSA"` | no |

|  [ssh\_public\_key\_file](#input\_ssh\_public\_key\_file) | Name of existing SSH public key file (e.g. `id_rsa.pub`) | `string` | `null` | no |

|  [ssh\_public\_key\_path](#input\_ssh\_public\_key\_path) | Path to SSH public key directory (e.g. `/secrets`) | `string` | n/a | yes |

|  [ssm\_parameter\_enabled](#input\_ssm\_parameter\_enabled) | Whether an SSM parameter store value is created to store the key's private key pem. | `bool` | `false` | no |

|  [ssm\_parameter\_path\_prefix](#input\_ssm\_parameter\_path\_prefix) | The path prefix for the created SSM parameter e.g. '/ec2/key-pairs/acme-ue1-dev-bastion'. `ssm_parameter_enabled` must be set to `true` for this to take affect. | `string` | `"/ec2/key-pairs/"` | no |

|  [stage](#input\_stage) | ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release' | `string` | `null` | no |

|  [tags](#input\_tags) | Additional tags (e.g. `{'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}`).
Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module. | `map(string)` | `{}` | no |

|  [tenant](#input\_tenant) | ID element \_(Rarely used, not included by default)\_. A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for | `string` | `null` | no |


## Outputs

| Name | Description |

|------|-------------|

|  [key\_name](#output\_key\_name) | Name of SSH key |

|  [private\_key](#output\_private\_key) | Content of the generated private key |

|  [private\_key\_filename](#output\_private\_key\_filename) | Private Key Filename |

|  [public\_key](#output\_public\_key) | Content of the generated public key |

|  [public\_key\_filename](#output\_public\_key\_filename) | Public Key Filename |

## Related Projects

Check out these related projects.

- [github-authorized-keys](https://github.com/cloudposse/github-authorized-keys) - Use GitHub teams to manage system user accounts and authorized_keys

- [sudosh](https://github.com/cloudposse/sudosh) - Shell wrapper to run a login shell with `sudo` as the current user for the purpose of audit logging

- [terraform-tls-ssh-key-pair](https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-tls-ssh-key-pair) - Terraform module for generating an SSH public/private key file.

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