ec2-ssh-yplan 1.3.0

SSH into EC2 instances via tag name

A pair of command line utilities for finding and SSH-ing into your Amazon EC2 instances by tag (such as ‘Name’).

Forked from Instagram original code by YPlan.

Installation

From pip:

pip install ec2-ssh-yplan

Usage

# ec2-ssh

% ec2-ssh nginx2
# equivalent to
# ssh [e-mail]

% ec2-ssh root@appserver
% ec2-ssh deploy@nginx2 sudo restart nginx

# ec2-host

# w/o arg: prints all active instances
% ec2-host
ec2-123-45-67-89.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-132-45-67-89.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-231-45-67-89.compute-1.amazonaws.com

# w/ arg
% ec2-host backend
ec2-132-45-67-89.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-132-45-67-90.compute-1.amazonaws.com

# w/ tag arg too
% ec2-host -t environment production
ec2-132-45-67-90.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-111-45-67-90.compute-1.amazonaws.com

History

Pending

• Forked by @adamchainz

1.2.1 (2011-11-27)

• Fix issue when ec2-host finds one offline instance with same name as an online instance

1.2 (2011-11-27)

• Merged pull requests to add region and tag support

1.1.1 (2011-11-17)

• Add line echoing host before establishing SSH connection

1.1 (2011-11-15)

• override prompt (PS1) to show tag name

1.0 (2011-09-05)

• initial release