Is there an open source or commercial product or service that can offer ssh login to linux servers without having to manually manage and deploy SSH keys, or at least to do it in more automated manner.
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Requests for product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic – Gerald Schneider Apr 07 '22 at 14:55
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There are already lots and lots of questions about SSH key management on this site an several solutions are presented there. – Gerald Schneider Apr 07 '22 at 14:56
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OpenSSH has little know feature called the AuthorizedKeysCommand which allows you to configure your sshd daemon to run a specific help program to retrieve the public keys that you would normally store and deploy in a users ˜/.ssh/authorized_keys file.
That helper program can for example query a database server, a LDAP server or whatever else might be suitable for your purposes.
That avoids the common alternatives of using configuration management tooling to deploy keys to ˜/.ssh/authorized_keys files or to mount network shares with (administrator/user) home directories containing ˜/.ssh/authorized_keys files.
See this Q&A for an LDAP example: SSH key authentication using LDAP
Rob
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