Paramiko SSH client: How to connect using public key authentication

This example shows how to use paramiko to connect to [email protected] using the SSH key stored in ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 using Python:

import os.path
import paramiko

ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
ssh.connect("192.168.1.112", username="user",
            key_filename=os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), ".ssh", "id_ed25519"))

Also see our full example: Paramiko SSH client minimal example: How to connect to SSH server and execute command