New: Automatically add SSH keys to new Brightboxes 3 Jun 10

Getting access to your newly purchased Brightboxes used to require a trip to the control panel to retrieve the ‘rails’ user password. If you’re using config management systems like Chef or Puppet this is likely the only laborious aspects of configuring your box. No longer!

Now, whenever a new box is deployed, the SSH keys of all the technical contacts on your Brightbox account are automatically pre-installed for the default ‘rails’ user. To add your own SSH key, edit your user profile within the control panel and paste in your SSH public key using the editor at the bottom.

Remember, this only affects newly provisioned boxes – as the it’s done during the box build stage. Removing or adding technical contacts in the control panel at a later date will not automatically change any access control on existing boxes.