​Akamai​ now supports password-less provisioning, which lets you deploy a Linode instance with enhanced security.

Password-less support

When using any of these operations to generate new Linodes or disks, you can now bypass root password creation, and provision SSH key access instead.

• Create a Linode (POST /linode/instances)

• Rebuild a Linode (POST /linode/instances/{linodeId}/rebuild)

• Create a disk (POST /linode/instances/{linodeId}/disks)

Additional updates

Several operations have been updated to include the accelerated_devices field in their response. It lists the number of video processing units (VPU) available for an Accelerated Linode.

• Create a Linode (POST /linode/instances)

• List Linodes (GET /linode/instances)

• Get a Linode (GET /linode/instances/{linodeId})

• Clone a Linode (POST /linode/instances/{linodeId}/clone)

• Rebuild a Linode (POST /linode/instances/{linodeId}/rebuild)

• List types (GET /linode/types)

• Get a type (GET /linode/type/{typeId})