Wsl
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is one of the best features on Windows 10. It makes development so much easier than it used to be but still has a few hiccups. Kinda like Linux, some things don’t “just work.” One pesky thing that I recently dealt with was getting SSH to work with a keypair file from WSL. Here is how to get SSH working on WSL.
Goal
Given a keypair file, we want to invoke ssh from the command line and establish a tunnel to another server. This is a common task when connecting to remote servers. Think AWS, Azure, or Digital Ocean. It is a simple command: