To generate an SSH key we need open SSH installed on our machine.
Let’s say we are working on a Ubuntu or Mac machine and we have open-ssh available. We can use
ssh-keygen
It will prompt you for the key name. Enter the key’s name and hit enter. It will then prompt you for a passphrase but it’s optional. Let’s skip it for now.
You will get the two files one for private key without any file extension and the other for public key with .pub file extension.
Its quite simple to generate an ssh key.
Next, we will see how we can configure this key to fetch code from bitbucket.