# Managing Google Cloud Platform Project-Wide SSH Keys

DevFeed: [Managing Google Cloud Platform Project-Wide SSH Keys](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/managing-google-cloud-platform-project-wide-ssh-keys-1483.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/managing-google-cloud-platform-project-wide-ssh-keys>)

Author: Cailyn Edwards

Published: 2021-01-27T16:37:04Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Google Cloud Platform (GCP)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google-cloud.md>), [OpenSSH](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openssh.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>)

Tags: [applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/applications.md>), [google-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-cloud.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains the security risks of persistent project-wide SSH keys in Google Cloud Platform. It introduces SSH-Pruner, an application intended to silently and effectively manage these keys in Shopify's Google Cloud project, while describing the surrounding cloud, Kubernetes, and security practices.

## Source excerpt

As a member of the Infrastructure Security team, Cailyn set out to create an application to silently and effectively manage SSH keys that persist inside of Shopify's Google Cloud Platform project-wide metadata.