How to connect to your Pod with SSH (and move files with SCP and FileZilla)
Blog post from RunPod
Runpod Pods are GPU-backed containers that can be accessed like remote Linux servers using SSH key authentication, with official templates such as Runpod PyTorch providing SSH support by default. The process involves generating an Ed25519 key pair, adding the public key to Runpod credentials before creating a Pod, deploying a Pod with a public IP, and using the SSH-over-exposed-TCP connection rather than Basic SSH, which does not support file transfers. Users can upload and download files through command-line SCP, noting that it uses an uppercase port flag, or through FileZilla via SFTP with the Pod’s IP address, port, root username, and private key. Connection problems commonly result from using a key fingerprint instead of the public key, adding a key after Pod creation, or selecting the public rather than private key file. SCP is suited to quick or scripted transfers, while FileZilla provides a graphical option for browsing and moving files, and the same SSH credentials can also support tools such as VS Code, Cursor, or Runpod’s command-line utilities.
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