FZF selector for cloud instances
Project description
FZF Cloud Select
Purpose
We have to jump between nodes quickly. There is a list of cloud accounts. Each account has multiple regions. Some nodes are publicity available, some of them not. Dozen of nodes sit behind bastion hosts. And few of them sit behind a group of jump points. And they all have different SSH keys.
There is a ~/.ssh/config
, but it is not enough because of the dynamic nature of the cloud. It is too clumsy. It is not suitable for cases when IP addresses are changing instantly, and instances are creating and destroying in minutes.
I tried to structure that hell with shell scripts, but the shell is not enough. I believe that tools like C/C++/Java/Node.JS/Go?/Rust are too heavy for this case. Python is the exact thing. I like to have a dynamic and lightweight solution. Cloud Select is fast enough to go through thousands of nodes. Maybe if my scope will be higher, then I'll create something other.
It is useful for diving inside geo-distributed onion enterprise environments with weird security settings.
Implementation
CloudSelect retrieves node list from the cloud, passes that list to FZF, adds some useful information to selected nodes (like jump hosts, sudo -i
command, etc...), and returns JSON dictionary that could be used by other programs. CloudSelect is a team player in a shell environment. We can automatically open multiple interactive SSH sessions and provide passwords to sudo -i
under TMUX environment.
Demo
We are:
- connecting to bastion host with public IP 54.171.154.230
- using locally stored key on bastion because the usage of ssh-agent is restricted by security team ?lol? and sshd settings are
AllowTcpForwarding no
,GatewayPorts no
- jumping to 4 EC2 web instances in development environment that located in private subnet 172.30.x.x
- running
sudo -i
at startup - entering
sudo
password 12345678
All of those were completed in a few arrow/enter key clicks...
Basic usage
- Connect to a single known_hosts server
- Connect to a single EC2 AWS instance
Advanced usage
- Connect to multiple known_hosts servers, run
sudo -i
command at startup and entersudo
password - Connect to multiple EC2 AWS instances, run
sudo -i
command at startup and entersudo
password - Connect to multiple EC2 AWS instances through a bastion host, run
sudo -i
command at startup and entersudo
password
Features
:rocket: We may use jump hosts even if jump host hasn't been configured to allow remote port forwarding and we have the following settings in sshd_config:
AllowTcpForwarding no
GatewayPorts no
Installation
CloudSelect is on PyPi! You can install CloudSelect with a simple pip command:
pip install cloudselect
Add profile bash completion:
complete -C cloudselect_completer cloudselect
You may copy suitable wrapper from example
directory.
License
MIT © Alexey Aksenov et al
Project details
Release history Release notifications | RSS feed
Download files
Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.
Source Distribution
Built Distribution
Hashes for cloudselect-19.1.2-py3-none-any.whl
Algorithm | Hash digest | |
---|---|---|
SHA256 | 8bd1d0b1e650201a6ef0f6d781500d8599be30fe9906021c154622a92014bb22 |
|
MD5 | 26f8e3d3fbb2df5f0655a83e89645b0d |
|
BLAKE2b-256 | bacc41f5b2333349d664596386c66978ac81b5613126a3325646cce3ab58152d |