chssh 0.1

ssh wrappers to transparently use chef node names instead of hostnames

# chssh – Interactive ssh and scp for chef

Inspired by ec2-ssh from instagram; this uses the pychef library to allow you to address your hosts by their chef node name instead of needing to know their dns names. This exists explicitly because dns names in the cloud are so exceedingly painful to work with.

This differs from knife ssh because these tools operate with interactive shells, and are meant for working with 1 node at a time.

# Prerequisities

You need to have an installed and configured chef client on your machine. The code uses the pychef autoconfigure() to discover and load the chef configuration

# Usage

chssh node1 # ssh to chef node node1 chssh user@node1 # ssh as user to chef node node1 chscp file user@node1:path # scp file to chef node node1 chscp user@node1:path . # scp file from chef node node1

Enjoy!