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How to Install a Public Key to Your VM in Openshift Virtualization

3 min readOct 18, 2026

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Red Hat Openshift Virtualization

Installing / importing your SSH key into your VM on your Openshift Virtualization cluster is easy, just add your SSH public key during VM creation from the UI or CLI, that’s all, I’m giving an example from InstanceType method, but they are pretty much all the same.

· Select your project and go to “Virtualization -> Catalog” and click “InstanceTypes”, then select your O/S

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Figure 1 : Create new VirtualMachine from InstanceType

· Scroll down and select “InstanceType”

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Figure 2 : Create new VirtualMachine from InstanceType

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· Scroll down to “VirtualMachine details” and click “Not configured” next to “Public SSH key”

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Savas Irez
Savas Irez

Written by Savas Irez

I like writing helpful documents around my expertise on solutions like : NetBackup, Red Hat Openshift, Linux etc... So I decided to publish them here. Cheers!