From 7578da17198b491a7985104cc2b0960d4daaa07e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Sloka Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 09:19:17 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Added note about AWS env variable to specify location of private key --- docs/getting-started-guides/aws.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/getting-started-guides/aws.md b/docs/getting-started-guides/aws.md index 7e40849c1e1..f2a541aee43 100644 --- a/docs/getting-started-guides/aws.md +++ b/docs/getting-started-guides/aws.md @@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ export INSTANCE_PREFIX=k8s It will also try to create or reuse a keypair called "kubernetes", and IAM profiles called "kubernetes-master" and "kubernetes-minion". If these already exist, make sure you want them to be used here. +NOTE: If using an existing keypair named "kubernetes" then you must set the `AWS_SSH_KEY` key to point to your private key. + ### Alternatives A contributed [example](aws-coreos.md) allows you to setup a Kubernetes cluster based on [CoreOS](http://www.coreos.com), either using AWS CloudFormation or EC2 with user data (cloud-config).