SSH keys
DotDeployer is agentless: there’s no software installed on your server. It connects over SSH, using a key pair it generates for your server — there’s nothing to uninstall if you ever move on.
Your own keys: Settings → SSH keys is where you manage the SSH keys DotDeployer knows about for you. A server’s own SSH keys tab shows which of your keys are installed on that particular server, so you can tell at a glance whether your laptop can reach it directly, outside of DotDeployer.
Steps to add a key:
- Go to Settings → SSH keys and add a public key.
- On a server’s SSH keys tab, install it to that server if you want direct SSH access to it yourself, alongside DotDeployer’s own key.
DotDeployer’s own key: generated per server when it’s provisioned (or, for Custom VPS, when you connect it). It’s what DotDeployer uses for every provisioning, deploy and management action from then on — your temporary root login for a Custom VPS is discarded once it’s installed.
Revoking access: removing a key from Settings → SSH keys, or from a specific server’s SSH keys tab, removes that access the same way it would on any server — there’s no separate “agent” to uninstall or disable.
