assh - select your servers from aws with ncurses and then ssh easily - or do something else with them.

How

assh brings a list of servers from your AWS account. Search, move, Hit enter to select one, then ssh (or whatever you want) to them.

Its extendible, so you can add some other commands - use it with fabric, ansible, ssh etc.

Why

Because servers come and go, and i started hating the questions "Do we have 2 appservers in X project or 3 ? ", "was it app4.x.project.com or app5.x.project.com".

Installation

use pip to install

pip install assh

then create a python file in your ~/.assh directory with somename

mkdir ~/.assh
vim ~/.assh/project.py

add your AWS account info

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = 'XXXXX'
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = 'YYYY'
AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN = None # OPTIONAL
AWS_REGION = 'us-east-1'

a region also can be a list eg AWS_REGION = 'us-east-2'

and then you can

assh project ssh

select your fav. server and hit enter.

you can also extend and override commands in project.py file

def cmd_SSH(self, **kwargs):
    return 'ssh -i ~/.ssh/project.pem ubuntu@{ip}'.format(**kwargs)

your costum command will recieve information about the selected machine

Your ssh must be located in ~/.ssh and its name must be the same as configured in amazon

Usage

using SSH

assh project ssh

assh project ssh ssh_user=ubuntu

assh project ssh nat_user=ec2-user

assh project ssh ssh_user=ubuntu nat_user=ec2-user

using SCP

assh project scp_to src=path/to/local/file to=path/on/remote

assh project scp_from src=remote/path to=local/path