Clone repo SSH from GitHub to Ubuntu EC2 AWS
2 min readMar 1, 2024
We learning to generate SSH key in Ubuntu 22 and create deploy key in GitHub that clone repository in our server with SSH.
Step 1. Generate Key to server
In first step, we require to get key using bellow command, So open your terminal or command prompt and run bellow command:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@gmail.com" -b 4096
or
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your_email@gmail.com"
Show the created key
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Copy the key
Step 2. Create Deploy Key
In your GitHub repository go to https://github.com/settings/ssh/new and create a new key.
If the deploy key is created successful will be display in the SSH and GPG keys list, so now we are ready to clone our repository.