# Quick Question on putting ssh keys into a custom ee.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/quick-question-on-putting-ssh-keys-into-a-custom-ee/35923>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx, ee, kubernetes\
**Created:** [October 25, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/quick-question-on-putting-ssh-keys-into-a-custom-ee/35923 "2021-10-25T21:41:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Jason\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jason\_B](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jason_B)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/quick-question-on-putting-ssh-keys-into-a-custom-ee/35923/1 "2021-10-25T21:41:52Z")

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I am migrating from a docker only AWX instance to a K8s AWX instance with an executable environment. I have already upgraded my DEV system to AWX operator 19.4.0, and I do have an executable environment.

I am currently updating my playbooks to play nice with ansible 2.11 ( previously, I was using 2.9.x ). All kinds of fun with collections.

My question is in regards to ssh keys. I have a few playbooks that I delegate some tasks to a few “Task Runner” VM Systems.

So, I need to have ssh keys that allowed to connect to my task runner vms. I think that I can do this via:

[Creating ssh secrets key file in kubernetes - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39568412/creating-ssh-secrets-key-file-in-kubernetes)

However, I also think it may be possible by simply updating my custom ee.

Anyone else out there have a suggestion - especially if you are doing this currently with a similar configuration that I am using ? Code snippets especially welcome 🙂

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**Author:** ![Jason\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jason\_B](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jason_B)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/quick-question-on-putting-ssh-keys-into-a-custom-ee/35923/2 "2021-10-26T19:47:40Z")

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I found the following while doing research on this:

[Jan-Piet Mens :: Configure SSH ProxyCommand for Ansible AWX on Kubernetes (jpmens.net)](https://jpmens.net/2021/03/25/configure-ssh-proxycommand-for-awx-on-kubernetes/)  
[https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/4.0.0/html/administration/operator\_advanced\_configurations.html#configure-custom-volume-options](https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/4.0.0/html/administration/operator_advanced_configurations.html#configure-custom-volume-options)