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Configure your SSH client on Linux

You may ease up the use of SSHing to your server by configuring your SSH client. To do so, simply follow this quick HowTo:

1. Create a config file using your prefered text editor and paste the following in it:

For this HowTo and for simplicity sake, we'll use the following values:
Application server: app.exemple.com
Key name: exemple.key
Username: integrator

So, the following block to paste is the following (and make sure to adjust the values accordingly to your setup:

Host app.exemple.com
Hostname app.exemple.com
User integrator
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/exemple.key

2. Save the file in ~/.ssh/ and test it by accessing it using a terminal:
ssh app.exemple.com

Congrats!