{"repo":"xen0l/aws-gate","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/xen0l/aws-gate","clone":"git clone https://github.com/xen0l/aws-gate.git","description":"Better AWS SSM Session manager CLI client","language":"Python","stars":516,"topics":["aws","aws-ssm","session-manager","cli","ec2-instances","ec2","aws-ssm-agent","ssh","access-control","iam-access"],"license":null,"category":"cli-tools","readme_excerpt":"aws-gate AWS SSM Session manager client Documentation Motivation I am using AWS a lot and I am tired of dealing with everything that comes with the bastion host (additional instance one has to maintain, distribute SSH keys (shared SSH keys are not an option for me), exposing SSH to the network). A while ago, Amazon released a service to fix this - AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. However, CLI user experience of Session Manager is limited and lacks some features: ability to connect to instances by other means (e.g. DNS, IP, tag, instance name, autoscaling group) as aws cli supports only connecting by instance IDs configuration file support for storing connection information via Session Manager aws-gate tries to address these issues. Getting Started These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system. Prerequisites Python 3.5+ (earlier Python 3 versions should work too) session-plugin-manager from AWS SSM Agent version 2.3.68.0 or later must be installed on EC2 instances we want to connect to Proper IAM permissions for instance profile Installing Via pip or via Homebrew or via Docker Features config and config.d support You can store information about to connect to your instance (name, region and profile) and aws-gate will do everything for you. The config file is stored in /.aws-gate/config and has the following YAML syntax: wh","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/xen0l","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/xen0l/aws-gate/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}