SSH Keys

This topic describes the different types of SSH keys used by Cloudera AI, and how you can use those keys to authenticate to an external service such as GitHub.

Personal key
Cloudera AI automatically generates an SSH key pair for your user account. You can rotate the key pair and view your public key on your user settings page. It is not possible for anyone to view your private key.
Team key
Team SSH keys provide a useful way to give an entire team access to external resources such as databases or GitHub repositories (as described in the next section).
Adding an SSH key to GitHub
Cloudera AI creates a public SSH key for each account. You can add this SSH public key to your GitHub account if you want to use password-protected GitHub repositories to create new projects or collaborate on projects.
Creating an SSH tunnel
You can use your SSH key to connect Cloudera AI to an external database or cluster by creating an SSH tunnel.