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Securing SSH Communication between Servers

The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is how we most often manually connect to our servers — in fact, it's how you'll connect to the servers for this lab! While SSH encrypts our connection, there are actions we can take to ensure our SSH setup is even more secure.

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Level

Beginner

Duration

10m

Published

Jun 23, 2023

Challenge

Create a Key Pair

Generate a key pair on workstation and copy it to the dev server.
Challenge

Lock Down SSH

Set up SSH so a key pair must be used to log in.

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A Cloud Guru

The Cloud Content team comprises subject matter experts hyper focused on services offered by the leading cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, and Azure), as well as cloud-related technologies such as Linux and DevOps. The team is thrilled to share their knowledge to help you build modern tech solutions from the ground up, secure and optimize your environments, and so much more!

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