Connect with SSH

you can manage your instance using a terminal and ssh you can either use an ssh client or connect to it directly via your terminal to log in to your instance with ssh, you will need some basic information regarding your instance ip address of your instance default username of the instance if you aren't using an ssh key, you will need the default password of your instance (which can be found on virtual machine overview ) the ip address of your instance is displayed on the card of your instance after you have created it you can hover over it to copy it instance ip address more information about your instance can be found on virtual machine overview , which can be accessed by clicking on the name displayed on the virtual machine card virtual machine overview connecting to your instance using the terminal to connect to your instance via ssh using the terminal, follow these steps open your terminal on windows, you can use command prompt, powershell, or git bash on macos and linux, you can use the default terminal use the ssh command if you have an ssh key added to your instance, use the following command ssh \[username]@\[public ip address] if you are using a password, use the following command ssh i /path/to/your/private/key \[username]@\[public ip address] example if your instance username is root and the ip address is 192 168 1 1 , the command would be ssh root\@192 168 1 1 ssh connection by following these steps, you can securely connect to your instance using ssh