In order to use the Oracle Compute Infrastructure API a user must generate a key to upload into the web console. This key is used to authenticate to the API for a specific tenancy for tools such as Terraform or other third-party or home build tools.
The instructions for creating these keys is a multi step process involving openssl and command line while keeping track of the files that are generated. This tool handles all of that for you. It'll generate the private and public key along with keeping track of the tenancies they are created for and the fingerprints of the keys.
The usual.
go get -u github.com/nshttpd/oci-api-keygen
At some point in the future binaries for different platorms will be provided.
The default location for the public and private keys along with a configuration file will be ~/.oci/ where most
other things associated with OCI are stored. This can be overridden with a --config parameter and the keys
will be stored in the same directory as where the config file is set to.
The basics are :
Create
create a set of keys for a tenancy
oci-api-keygen create [tenancy]
List
List all of the tenancies that have had keys generated for them
oci-api-keygen list
Show fingerprint for a tenancy
oci-api-keygen list [tenancy]
Delete
Delete all the artifacts for a tenancy and remove it from the config file.
oci-api-keygen delete [tenancy]