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Generate a long random password with:

cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 64 | head -n 1

Replace very_long_secret with the long generated password and replace /opt/.certs/service with the location for your keys and the name (different name for each key "service") Default generally is ~/.ssh/id_rsa, you can omit -f "/opt/.certs/service" if you don't want to choose it.

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f "/opt/.certs/service" -N jw7sfh9y2e5ma9er4qwy3a97j4h8czhqy2fbaypv9er4qwy3a9w9rtv587q2k