ec2-to-ssh

This is the EC2-to-SSH tool.

Latest version

The latest is 0.3.1.

Motivation

Got tired of updating my SSH configuration over and over again. This here simply reads out all running EC2 instances and prints them out to screen.

Installing ec2-to-ssh

Install via pip:

$ easy_install pip
$ pip install git+ssh://[email protected]/otype/[email protected]

Configuring ec2-to-ssh

Before you can run ec2-to-ssh you must configure the appropriate configuration files

• ${HOME}/.ec2ssh/settings.LIVE.cfg
• ${HOME}/.ec2ssh/settings.DEV.cfg
• ${HOME}/.ec2ssh/settings.STAGE.cfg

and fill in appropriate values for the corresponding EC2 environment. E.g. setting the correct SSH-Key for the corresponding EC2 environment:

[SSH_CONFIG]
SSH_KEY = /Users/hgschmidt/.ssh/<your_ec2_ssh_key>
SSH_PORT = 22
SSH_USER = ubuntu

If you like you can set a prefix for all hostnames of a given EC2 environment. For instance, for your DEV environment, you would like all hostnames to start with "dev-". To accomplish this, simply add a prefix in the corresponding settings.DEV.cfg file

EC2_HOSTNAME_PREFIX = dev

Using ec2-to-ssh

Following descriptions gives instructions on how to use ec2-to-ssh.

Environments

You have 3 possible environments to choose (add as parameter to ec2-to-ssh):

1. live
2. dev
3. stage

Calling ec2-to-ssh with one of the given environment identifiers will load the appropriate settings file:

$ ec2-to-ssh dev

Setting EC2 ACCESS/SECRET KEYS

You can either set environment variables and, then, call ec2-to-ssh with the corresponding EC2 environment:

$ EC2_ACCESS_KEY=ABCDEFGHIJK EC2_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=ALONGSECRETKEY ec2-to-ssh dev

Or you can set your Access Keys in the configuration file. E.g. setting your EC2 credentials for your DEV environment will require changes in ${HOME}/.ec2ssh/settings.DEV.cfg:

[EC2]
EC2_AWS_ACCESS_KEY = <put_your_key_key>
EC2_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = <put_your_secret_key_here>

Now call ec2-to-ssh with the 'dev' identifier:

$ ec2-to-ssh dev

Auto-update your SSH configuration

Simply create a shell function and add that to your shell configuration file (e.g. ~/.bashrc):

function update-ssh() {
    EC2_AWS_ACCESS_KEY=<LIVE_KEY>  EC2_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<LIVE_SECRET_KEY>  ec2-to-ssh live  > ${HOME}/.ssh/config.liveplatform
    EC2_AWS_ACCESS_KEY=<DEV_KEY>   EC2_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<DEV_SECRET_KEY>   ec2-to-ssh dev   > ${HOME}/.ssh/config.devplatform
    EC2_AWS_ACCESS_KEY=<STAGE_KEY> EC2_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<STAGE_SECRET_KEY> ec2-to-ssh stage > ${HOME}/.ssh/config.stageplatform

    touch ${HOME}/.ssh/config
    mv ${HOME}/.ssh/config ${HOME}/.ssh/config_old

	for f in ${HOME}/.ssh/config.*
	do
        cat $f >> ${HOME}/.ssh/config
    done
}

Now, all I need to do before logging in into an EC2 instance is to call update-ssh.

NOTE: ec2-to-ssh needs to be in your path when calling update-ssh!

Using virtualenv

Simply source your activate script of your virtualenv at the beginning of the function:

function update-ssh() {
	source ${WORKON_HOME}/ec2ssh/bin/activate

    [... update-ssh function content ...]

    deactivate
}

TODO

• dev, live, stage is available now ... but, possibly, there is a nicer solution.