In order to manage the required software inside my Elastic VPS container, I need to connect to it via SSH protocol. This can be performed through the dedicated CloudJiffy SSH Gate, which provides a single access point to configure all environments and servers within your account remotely, with the full root access granted.

In case I prefer to operate my VPS container with the help of external SSH tools, consider establishing connection to it via Public IP address. Regardless of the chosen approach, the provided functionality and management capabilities will remain the same.

So below we’ll consider how to connect to my CloudJiffy account by means of CloudJiffy SSH Gate, based on the operating system that is run on my local machine:

• for MacOS/Linux/BSD

• for Windows

CloudJiffy SSH Gate allows to establish secure and encrypted connection to the remote VPS container and execute the required commands on it. If I haven’t established SSH connection before, I’ll need to perform the following steps:

• generate an SSH keypair
• add my public SSH key to the dashboard

• access my account via SSH protocol
  
  

The process of SSH connection setup is the same for all containers within the Platform, including Linux-based virtual private servers (i.e. on top of Ubuntu and CentOS). Thus, within this guide, we won’t dwell on this procedure - just refer to the linked above pages in our documentation to explore the full list of required actions.

For Windows operating system, the process of SSH connection establishment via CloudJiffy Gate is slightly different, since it requires to additionally handle SSH private key at my local machine. We’ll consider the needed operations with the example of PuTTYgen tool.

1. First, generate an SSH keypair and add a public key to the dashboard.

2. Run PuTTYgen and save private SSH key, which corresponds to the public one I’ve previously added to the dashboard.

Click on Save private key version and specify the path and name of the file it will be saved to.

3. Next, download and launch PuTTY SSH authentication agent (i.e. Pageant). In the opened window, click Add key button and navigate to the local file I’ve saved a private key to.

Then I can Close the window, so that Pageant will be rolled to the tray.

4. One more required tool is PuTTY SSH client itself. Once it has been downloaded and launched, access the Session tab located in the left-side Category section.

Fill in the Host Name (or IP address) field with my SSH connection string, that can be seen in the Settings > SSH Keychain > Public tab at the dashboard. Specify 3022Port number and press the Open button.

5. Thereafter, a console with the list of available environments from my dashboard will be displayed.

6. Upon selecting the required environment, I’ll see a list of containers provisioned for it.

Select a specific container (if there are several ones) or action by entering a corresponding number.

That’s it! Manage my VPS node with full root privileges granted, while operating with Windows OS.