stups-ssh-tunnels 0.1

Convenience tool to create SSH tunnels to cluster applications on AWS

Convenience tool to create SSH tunnels to cluster applications on AWS.

Example cluster applications would be:

• Kafka

• Zookeeper

• Cassandra

This tool automatically adds the private VPC IPs to your local loopback lo interface and to your /etc/hosts file. Cluster nodes can be accessed directly from your local machine.

$ tunnels my-senza-stack 9092 odd-eu-central-1.myteam.example.org --region eu-central-1

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/zalando-stups/ssh-tunnels.git
$ cd ssh-tunnels
$ sudo python3 setup.py install # remove "sudo" if you have user-local Python setup

Usage

Connecting to a Cassandra cluster deployed with Senza:

$ piu odd-eu-west-1.myteam.example.org SSH tunnel to Cassandra for keyspace management
$ tunnels my-cassandra 9042 odd-eu-west-1.myteam.example.org --region eu-west-1
# open a new terminal
$ cqlsh 172.31.141.1 # take one seed IP printed by tunnels.py