Servers & SSH access

Your server's screen, its actions, the users on the machine, personal SSH keys, and who may open a terminal.

Maintainer Updated 10/19/2026

Maintainers. The Servers list sits under Infrastructure, which maintainers and admins see. Others reach a server from its environment.

The server screen

Open Infrastructure → Servers and click a server. Its sidebar has Overview, Installers (see Installers), Monitoring and Operations, the runs on the server.

The Overview has four tabs:

Tab	What it shows
Metrics	CPU, memory, disk and load over the last hour up to the last 30 days, once the server reports metrics.
Info	Identity (name, state, public and private addresses, owner), Machine (provider, size, image, region, load balancer) and Security: what the last Harden Server run left in place.
Storage	Volumes mounted on the server.
Users	The accounts on the machine, their SSH keys and terminal access (see Server users).

A server's Overview, Info tab, with its identity, machine and security — Info: who owns the server, what it runs on, and how it is hardened.

Server actions

Update, in the header, applies the server's configuration again. More holds the rest:

A server's More menu: Provider Actions, Deploy Metrics, Harden Server, Cleanup and Delete — The server's More menu.

Action	What it does
Provider Actions	Reads the machine's current specs from your cloud provider, or resizes it to another size (on Hetzner, optionally with a bigger disk).
Deploy Metrics	Installs what the Metrics tab and the monitoring boards read.
Harden Server	Sets up the firewall, fail2ban (which bans addresses that keep failing to log in over SSH) and the SSH settings, takes app users out of the docker group, and makes the apps' configuration files private.
Cleanup	Clears out temporary files and unused resources on the server.
Delete	Deletes the server and everything on it.

Run Harden Server once a server is up, then again after you change its users. The Info tab's Security section shows the result.

Server users

The Overview's Users tab lists the accounts on the machine: the ones CloudWady made (such as odoo, which runs your Odoo containers) and the ones you add.

Add User asks for a username and, optionally, a description, UID and GID, home directory, shell, extra groups and a generated SSH key. Then Deploy creates the user on the server. Each row also has Update, delete from the server, details, SSH keys and Open Terminal.

A user you add cannot get sudo, a group that grants host-level power (sudo, docker, adm, wheel, lxd, disk, shadow, root, admin) or a UID or GID below 1000. Those stay with CloudWady staff.

SSH keys

Your personal keys

Add your public key once, under My Settings → SSH Keys: press Add Key, give it a name, and paste the key or upload its .pub file. The page shows how to find or make one:

cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "alex@acme.example"

My Settings, SSH Keys, with Add Key and how to find your key — My Settings → SSH Keys.

Give a server user a key

On the server's Users tab, open the user's SSH keys.
Press Add SSH Key and pick the key source: Use my personal key (one from My Settings) or Generate new key.
Press Add Key (or Generate Key), then Deploy SSH key to put it on the server.

A server user's SSH keys with the Add SSH Key key-source choice — A server user's keys: add your personal key or generate one.

The same list lets you mark a key as primary, download its public half, or delete it from the server.

Opening a terminal

Press Open Terminal on a server user's row to get a shell on the server as that user, in your browser. It needs one of your keys on that user. When you have several, CloudWady asks which one to use.

Who may open a terminal follows the most sensitive environment the server hosts:

Server	Who may open a terminal
Hosts a production environment	Maintainer and Admin
Staging or development only	Developer Plus, Maintainer and Admin

Who can do what

Action	Development or staging server	Production server
See the server	Viewer	Viewer
Update, read the provider's specs	Developer Plus	Maintainer
Harden Server, Deploy Metrics, Cleanup, resize	Maintainer	Maintainer
Add and manage server users	Developer Plus	Maintainer
Open a terminal	Developer Plus	Maintainer
Delete the server	Maintainer	Admin

See Permissions & access for the levels.

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