SSH to Your EC2 Instance Instantly

SSH2 is an interactive command line tool which allows you to quickly ssh to an EC2 instance. You can select from a list of running servers under your account.

Usage

$ ssh2 1

$ ssh2 -h
Usage: ssh2 [options] [server_number]
  server_number: a numeric value corresponding to the server number
  e.g.: 'ssh2 1' will ssh into the 1st server in the list.

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -x, --bust-cache      refetch servers list from AWS
  -u USER, --user=USER  provide user (default: ubuntu)
  -i IDENTITY, --identity=IDENTITY
                        provide identity file
  -p PROFILE, --profile=PROFILE
                        provide AWS profile
  --ip=IP               connect using IP instead of DNS
  -g GREP, --grep=GREP  filter the server list

Filtering the list by EC2 instance name

$ ssh2 -g webrt

Servers list:
[1]  ec2-XX-XX-XX-XX.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com       webrtc-kurento
Which server would you like to connect to [1]? 
$ ssh2 -g webrt 1
Connecting to webrtc-kurento ec2-XX-XX-XX-XX.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

Requirements

• AWS CLI
• Python

Installation

pip install ssh2

or

without using Python package manager:

git clone https://github.com/soheil/ssh2.git
cd ssh2
ln -sf $(pwd)/ssh2 /usr/local/bin/

Author

Soheil Yasrebi, @soheil