EC2-ADD-KEYPAIR(1)

📦 version 1.6.14.1, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

🌸 EC2-ADD-KEYPAIR 💅

okay bestie, so this is EC2-ADD-KEYPAIR(1) — yes the manual page name is right there in the title, she's a User Commands girlie and she's about to hand you a brand new keypair. slay. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ec2-add-keypair — Generate a new keypair. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly. 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

 ec2addkey ([ec2-create-keypair, ec2-add-keypair])
 ec2addkey [GENERAL OPTIONS] KEY

💖 GENERAL NOTES 💖

okay so this is lowkey the most useful little hack here: any command option or parameter can be handed a value of - and that means "bestie, read the values for that option from stdin instead." ✨

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Generate a new keypair. periodt.

The KEY parameter is the name of the new keypair — like, you're naming your baby. pick something cute. 🍼

👑 GENERAL OPTIONS 👑

every single one, no gatekeeping, here we go:

  • -O, --aws-access-key KEY — your AWS Access Key ID. defaults to whatever the AWS_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is set to (if it's set, bestie).
  • -W, --aws-secret-key KEY — your AWS Secret Access Key. defaults to the value of the AWS_SECRET_KEY environment variable (if set). 🤫
  • -T, --security-token TOKEN — AWS delegation token. defaults to the value of the AWS_DELEGATION_TOKEN environment variable (if set).
  • -K, --private-key KEY — [DEPRECATED] specify KEY as the private key to use. defaults to the value of the EC2_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable (if set). it overrides the default. 💀 (yes she said deprecated, tread carefully)
  • -C, --cert CERT — [DEPRECATED] specify CERT as the X509 certificate to use. defaults to the value of the EC2_CERT environment variable (if set). it overrides the default. also deprecated, also 💀
  • -U, --url URL — specify URL as the web service URL to use. defaults to https://ec2.amazonaws.com (that's us-east-1) or to whatever the EC2_URL environment variable says (if set). it overrides the default.
  • --region REGION — specify REGION as the web service region to use. this option will override the URL you gave with the -U URL option and the EC2_URL environment variable. (she's bossy like that, respect it.) this option defaults to the region specified by the EC2_URL environment variable, or us-east-1 if that environment variable isn't set.
  • -D, --auth-dry-run — check if you can do the requested action instead of actually doing it. like a vibe check but for permissions. 🔥
  • -v, --verbose — verbose output. she will not shut up and honestly? iconic.
  • -?, --help — display this help. hi, you're here.
  • -H, --headers — display column headers.
  • --debug — display additional debugging information. 🐛
  • --show-empty-fields — indicate empty fields.
  • --hide-tags — do not display tags for tagged resources. 🙈
  • --connection-timeout TIMEOUT — specify a connection timeout TIMEOUT (in seconds).
  • --request-timeout TIMEOUT — specify a request timeout TIMEOUT (in seconds).

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this gorgeous thing is brought to you by the EC2 API command line tools, version 1.6.14.1, api=2014-05-01 — so if you're reading this, mwah, that's the version and the date, go off, generate that keypair, and have the day you deserve. 💖✨🎀

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