envssh - Take your environment with you

Environment (friendly) SSH client.

Brings your environment with you to the remote machine including environment variables, configuration files and other.

Note: This is POC implementation and needs a lot of refactoring and more testing!

Installing

go get -u github.com/drodil/envssh

Usage

Tool behaves much like the normal ssh client. To connect to remote, simply run:

envssh [remote]

The remote should be either hostname or IP address and can include username and port which are used to connect f.eg. user@remote:1234.

On the first run, default configuration file will be created to $HOME/.ssh/envssh.yml. See Configuration section for details how to configure the tool.

Run envssh --help for more options.

Also check out short demo on Youtube:

Configuration

Configuration file is created automatically to $HOME/.ssh/envssh.yml. The file contains the following sections:

• global - Global level configuration which can be overriden per hostname
  • env - Environment variables to move to the remote
    • static - Key-value pairs that are moved to the remote
    • moved - Keys from current environment that are evaluated and moved
  • files - List of files that are moved from local to the remote, each containing:
    • local - Local path of the file to move
    • remote - Destination path on the remote
  • commands - List of commands that are run on remote before starting the session
• servers - Server specific configurations that override the global ones based on hostname
  • host - Hostname of the remote
  • port - Port that is used to connect to remote
  • aliases - List of aliases for this server, can be used instead hostname in destination
  • env - See above
  • files - See above
  • commands - See above

See example configuration file envssh.yml

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.