connect

AWS Ssm Connector to able access EC2 instance without access to AWS dashboard.This tools presents a simple menu for that purposes.

Installation

connect tool basically developed as a pip3 package you easily setup all the dependencies and build the packages like this;

    $ pip3 install . --upgrade

After your installation completed you can get the output like this

    $ connect --region eu-west-1
    > kubernetes-worker-1 , i-INSTANCE_ID
    > kubernetes-master , i-INSTANCE_ID

Example usage

   $ connect.py --region eu-west-2 --tag Name --value asg-development

For more details

connect --help
Usage: connect [options]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -r REGION, --region=REGION
                        Region name of the aws account
  -t TAG, --tag=TAG     Tag of the EC2 instance

You can select easily with interactive menu

Setup

You can install python3 dependencies like that :

    $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

To connect your instance over ssm client you have to install this plugin following to this documents of AWS: Session Manager Plugin Installation

After than you should specify default AWS_PROFILE, or credential values into your terminal session (I prefer profile usage):

    $ export AWS_PROFILE=<MY_ACCOUNT_ID> AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=<REGION> AWS_SDK_LOAD_CONFIG=1

Notice : If you want to run this via your shell, you should move somewhere in your $PATH directory: