Adds a public SSH key to an environment, allowing clients with the corresponding private key to connect to that environment via SSH. If a key with the same content already exists, this will error with ALREADY_EXISTS.
HTTP request
POST https://cloudshell.googleapis.com/v1/{environment=users/*/environments/*}:addPublicKey
Environment this key should be added to, e.g. users/me/environments/default.
Request body
The request body contains data with the following structure:
JSON representation
{"key": string}
Fields
key
string
Key that should be added to the environment. Supported formats are ssh-dss (see RFC4253), ssh-rsa (see RFC4253), ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 (see RFC5656), ecdsa-sha2-nistp384 (see RFC5656) and ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 (see RFC5656). It should be structured as <format> <content>, where <content> part is encoded with Base64.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance of Operation.
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