ssh key not being loaded into Microstack.openstack vm

Why the "-i" option? Isn't your private key ~/.ssh/id_rsa like normal?

Do you have read access to the key file you are using?

Yes I have read access to the file
-i - because Im use to this setting, we use it all the time in the testbed. With out the -i, i get the same message.
This is strange, I have used microstack.openstack a lot - so this is a new one.
Its possible it could be a server issue on my side. I assume you guys dont have the same problem?

Also, just to confirm, the user is UBUNTU right? Its always ubuntu. So I cant see why that would change

What is the output of:

ssh -v -i ~/.ssh/key2.pem ubuntu@10.20.20.218

Also check perms with:

sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu ~/.ssh
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

These are sane ACLs to keep your keys safe

Hi,
I finally got back on this issue.
I decided to install openstack manually on a new Ubuntu OS.
And, Funnily enough, I had exactly the same problem in my OpenStack.

I traced the problem to neutron-metadata-agent not working properly. I had a problem in the past with this service, so I was able to debug it (Comparing it to a working openstack version) and figure out it was not running properly - i.e. the keys were not getting inserted. The keypair in openstack not imported to the instance.

The error when this is not working properly is: "[WARNING]: No active metadata service found" in the VM logs..:

The neutron-metadata-agent support inserting Public Keys into the Ubuntu VM instance, user information etc. "OpenStack services may use Etcd, a distributed reliable key-value store for distributed key locking, storing configuration, keeping track of service live-ness and other scenarios."

It was a hard solve, as everything looks liked it is working properly. For example, Nova API is looking at port 8775/TCP. no errors in metadata logs, etc. Note the communication flow in the following diagram:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/k4MdX.jpg

The problem, was in the nova-api.log however - where it is noticeable:

2022-03-16 09:36:15.131 67865 ERROR stevedore.extension [-] Could not load 'oslo_cache.etcd3gw': No module named 'etcd3gw': ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'etcd3gw'
2022-03-16 09:40:27.261 68914 ERROR stevedore.extension [-] Could not load 'oslo_cache.etcd3gw': No module named 'etcd3gw': ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'etcd3gw'
2022-03-16 09:51:16.219 70385 ERROR stevedore.extension [-] Could not load 'oslo_cache.etcd3gw': No module named 'etcd3gw': ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'etcd3gw'

Im not sure which exactly fixed the problem, but one of them did:
sudo apt-get install python3-etcd3gw
pip3 install etcd3gw

Its solved now anyways and I can log in.
I will try with the microstack again soon and let you know how it goes.