Firewall

Punch a hole into an AWS EC2 security group temporarily

Temporarily allow access to your current IP address into security groups, and automatically closes the hole when quitting. Convenient for SSH-ing into a box from a home or from any off-site location without worrying about leaving SSH open to the world or dealing with VPN.

Installation

$ pip install firewall

Setup

$ firewall --configure

Usage

$ firewall production-web -p 22,8080  # Open up ports 22 and 8080
$ firewall production-web,production-db  # Open up port 22 (default)

Usage: firewall [SECURITY GROUP][,SECURITY GROUP]

Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p PORTS, --ports=PORTS
                        Comma-separated list of ports to open
  -i CONFIG             Path to configuration file
  --configure           Run initial setup