ec2-ssh
A pair of command line utilities for finding and SSH-ing into your Amazon EC2 instances by tag (such as 'Name').
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Installation
From pip:
pip install ec2-sshUsage
# ec2-ssh
% ec2-ssh nginx2
# equivalent to
# ssh ubuntu@ec2-123-45-67-89.compute-1.amazonaws.com
% ec2-ssh root@appserver
% ec2-ssh deploy@nginx2 sudo restart nginx
# Specifying the user with an environment variable
% EC2_SSH_USER=deploy ec2-ssh nginx2
# 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
