I found the line, which looks like jclouds doesn't generate it's own
keys, instead relying on EC2API:
keyPair = ec2Api.getKeyPairApi().get().createKeyPairInRegion(region,
keyName);
Well spotted ;-) Yes, if jclouds *eventually* decides that it needs to
make a new key, it uses the API (the base EC2 driver does not support
key import, only key creation).
But the decision on whether a key needs to made, or not, is more
complicated than that. The story starts when you run
createNodesInGroup and quickly goes to
EC2CreateNodesInGroupThenAddToSet [1] and then (if you're on AWS) to
CreateKeyPairPlacementAndSecurityGroupsAsNeededAndReturnRunOptions [2].
The logic in createNewKeyPairUnlessUserSpecifiedOtherwise in that
class determines whether a key pair is imported, an existing key pair
is used or a new key pair created.
The test cases are not exactly easy to read, unfortunately, but the
test names at least should help give you an idea of the possible
combinations [3, 4].
If you want to access the target system using your local credentials,
you'll need to use something like
template.getOptions().authorizePublicKey(...) [5] or
template.getOptions().overrideLoginCredentials(...) [6]
ap
[1]
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/apis/ec2/src/main/java/org/jclouds/ec2/compute/strategy/EC2CreateNodesInGroupThenAddToSet.java
[2]
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/providers/aws-ec2/src/main/java/org/jclouds/aws/ec2/compute/strategy/CreateKeyPairPlacementAndSecurityGroupsAsNeededAndReturnRunOptions.java
[3]
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/providers/aws-ec2/src/test/java/org/jclouds/aws/ec2/compute/strategy/CreateKeyPairPlacementAndSecurityGroupsAsNeededAndReturnRunOptionsTest.java
[4]
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/apis/ec2/src/test/java/org/jclouds/ec2/compute/strategy/CreateKeyPairAndSecurityGroupsAsNeededAndReturnRunOptionsTest.java
[5]
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-examples/blob/master/ec2-computeservice-spot/src/main/java/org/jclouds/examples/ec2/spot/MainApp.java#L82
[6]
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-examples/blob/master/compute-basics/src/main/java/org/jclouds/examples/compute/basics/MainApp.java#L168
