Unable to set the SSH key via UI in PMM Server

Hi , ,

Thank you for the report.

Since this feature not meant for docker then user should have either option disabled or proper error should be seen.  Improvement request being tracked here , Marking the report OPEN for reference.

I have created to track improvements. Let's keep the current one to ensure SSH works in the supported cases.

I can tell, this is no longer a bug, I'm not sure when it was fixed

FYI: this feature is meant to work only for our AMI and OVF distributions, not for docker. However, you will see this screen in docker as well, which may be super confusing for some users.

Solution? It's easy to detect the PMM distribution (the backend can read the contents of /srv/distribution) and hide the feature for docker. Simple.

Can we convert this ticket into an improvement?

Hi ,

Sure, thanks!

  if I login to the container there is no "admin" user.

https://github.com/percona/pmm/blob/main/build/ansible/roles/cloud-node/tasks/main.yml#L82

looks like such user only created for the VMs ?

`admin` user is hard coded:

https://github.com/percona/pmm/blob/4e5131b276e816c9783f676936a1117818d2e946/managed/services/server/server.go#L828

https://jira.percona.com/browse/PMM-4317

So the question is - is the doc confusing or we need that ansible role work for all the images?

Looks like not. Doc also mentions appliance:

https://docs.percona.com/percona-monitoring-and-management/how-to/configure.html#ssh-key

So it doesn't looks like a bug unless you see this issue in VM, but rather improvement to detect env and don't show this setting, or improve doc.