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The current project is a Python CLI utility that deals with creation and management of VMs at a hosting provider. It supports configuration for the creation of machines via a config file. That file specifies an ssh key to be provisioned on new machines for the primary user. We have a new requirement which is to allow provisioning of more than one ssh key. Please implement this feature such that existing config file content remains backwards compatible.

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#3

I like that test, but can you please put it in a file so it gets added to the project test suite, rather than running it ad-hoc?

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All 47 tests pass and lint is clean. Here's a summary of what I implemented.

Multiple SSH keys — backwards-compatible

The ssh-key config value now accepts either a single name (string) or a list of names. Existing single-name configs are unchanged.

ssh-key: my-key            # still works exactly as before

ssh-key:                   # new: provision multiple keys
  - alice-laptop
  - bob-laptop

Code changes

  • machine/types.py — Config.ssh_key: str → Config.ssh_keys: list.
  • machine/config.py — new _get_ssh_keys() helper normalizes the ssh-key value to a non-empty list, accepting a string or a list. Reuses _require_key so the "missing key" error message is unchanged; rejects an empty list or an unsupported type with a graceful error.
  • machine/cloud_config.py — get_user_data() resolves every key name and emits one ssh-authorized-keys entry per key in the generated cloud-init payload.
  • machine/subcommands/create.py — verifies each configured key exists (extracted to _verify_ssh_keys() to stay under the ruff complexity limit) and passes the full list to the provider.
  • machine/subcommands/check.py — reports a PASS/FAIL line per key.
  • machine/provider.py + providers/{digitalocean,vultr,gcp}.py — create_vm()'s ssh_key_name parameter is now ssh_key_names (a list). DigitalOcean attaches all keys via ssh_keys=[...], Vultr via sshkey_id=[...], and GCP validates each name against project metadata.

Tests added

  • tests/test_config.py — TestGetSshKeys: scalar form, list form, str coercion, and rejection of missing/empty/wrong-type values.
  • tests/test_cloud_config.py (new file) — single-key install, multi-key install in order, generated payload parses as valid YAML, and an unresolvable key aborts cleanly.
  • tests/test_input_validation.py — TestMultipleSshKeys: end-to-end CLI checks that the scalar form still works, the list form parses, and an empty list is rejected gracefully (no traceback).

Docs

README updated: the ssh-key row in all three provider tables now notes list support, plus a new Multiple SSH keys section with examples.

One behavior note worth flagging: on DigitalOcean and Vultr, the listed keys are also attached to the provider's default account user (e.g. root), not only the cloud-init user — that matches the pre-existing single-key behavior. GCP has no per-VM key attachment, so there the keys are only validated against project metadata, as before.

#4

Thanks, that's great. We still need to add multiple keys in the e2e tests but since that will involve creating and provisioning extra keys, we'll do that as a separate task in the future.

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