ec2ssh

A CLI tool to easily ssh login to EC2 instances selected by peco.

Installation

On macOS, you can use Homebrew:

$ brew tap yamayo/ec2ssh
$ brew install ec2ssh

On Linux, download binary.

Usage

$ ec2ssh [option]

Options

--profile, -p

Use a specific profile from your credential file. (default default)

--region, -r

The region to use. Overrides AWS config/env settings.

--user, -u

Specifies the user to login to EC2 machine. (default ec2-user)

--version

Show version.

Settings and Examples

AWS Credentials

Before using ec2ssh you need to first give it your AWS credentials.

Named Profiles

The following example shows a credentials file with two profiles:
~/.aws/credentials

[default]
aws_access_key_id = xxxxx
aws_secret_access_key = xxxxxxxxxx

[user2]
aws_access_key_id = xxxxx
aws_secret_access_key = xxxxxxxxxx

~/.aws/config

[default]
region = us-west-2

[profile user2]
region = us-east-1

To use a named profile other than default, add the --profile option to your command.

$ ec2ssh --profile user2

Or you can specify it with an environment variable as AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE.

$ export AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE=user2

Environment Variables

ec2ssh supports the following environment variables.

• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID – AWS access key.

• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY – AWS secret key.

• AWS_SESSION_TOKEN – Only required if you are using temporary security credentials.

• AWS_DEFAULT_REGION – AWS region.

• AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE – name of the CLI profile to use.

• AWS_CONFIG_FILE – path to a CLI config file.

See more: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ja_jp/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html

Saving your private key

Finally, do not forget save the private key for login to EC2 in ~/.ssh.