SSHConfGen

Generates config files for SSH, for cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Linode etc. Currently, supports only AWS and runs of a cached API call (aws.json). Seeks to alleviate the pains when having to access (and maintain) a large number of VMs, possibly across multiple AWS accounts, and each time having to either do a history search or manually fetch connection info from the AWS console.

Usage

Generate cached API response (to be automated in the next release)

aws ec2 describe-instances --profile <aws_profile> --region <us-west-1>  > aws.json
<region -- for ex. us-west-1>

Include the generated configs to the main ssh config

nano ~/.ssh/config

Include ~/.ssh/custom/*.sshcfg

Move generated *.sshcfg from outputs, to ~/.ssh/custom/ (else use the config to set this path)

Configuration Parameters

• platform Select between AWS, Azure, GCP, Linode etc.
• pathToKeystore Folder path of private keys
• defaultUser In case detection of OS user isn't available, then use this
• pathToGenerated Where to put the generated configuration(s)
• filePrefix Prefix to be used for the generated configuration file(s)
• hostTag Specify the resource tag which will be used for the Host field
• groupTag Specify the resource tag which will be used incase of you wish to generate separate configuration files

TODO

• AWS API
• Azure API
• GCP API
• Linode API
• Move configuration to an ini file
• Check for paginated API responses