Opssh

Opssh is a tiny tool, that utilizes the OpsWorks API to gather information, about stacks and their instances, required to start a SSH session on a single AWS EC2 instance.

You can select the stack and the desired instance interactively:

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         Opssh - ssh to your OpsWorks instance

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Available OpsWorks stacks:
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  [1]. My Fancy Todo App
  [2]. Google-Clone
  [3]. Next big thing
  [4]. Blog in 5 minutes example
  [5]. Continuous Integration

--> Please select stack:

$ gem install opssh

Just invoke

$ opssh

Hint: Opssh caches API requests by default in ~/.opssh_api_cache to improve speed.

Use the -n option if you want to avoid caching.

$ opssh -n

Clear the API cache with

$ opssh -c

Opssh will create a configuration file in ~/.opssh. It's a YAML file.

The configuration can contain your AWS credentials and/or your customized ssh command.

To add credentials for your IAM user with permissions to access the OpsWorks API remove the comments and put in the keys:

aws_credentials:
  access_key_id: YOURKEYGOESHERE
  secret_access_key: YOURSECRETKEYGOESHERE

HINT: If you don't want to store credentials in the configuration file, you can use environment variables, as well. Opssh expects them to be declared as OPSWORKS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and OPSWORKS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.

##Custom ssh command

You need special ssh options, e.g. to use a specific ssh key or to provide a certain login name? No problem, just put it in ssh_command in the config:

ssh_command: ssh -l yoursshusername -i /path/to/your/privatekey

Opssh will then add the public DNS name of your instance to ssh_command.

This is a port of Scassh, which was build for Scalarium, the ancestor of OpsWorks.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request