# sshgen
> [!IMPORTANT]
> This repository contains software that is currently in the Beta stage.
SSH configuration generator based on your Ansible hosts YAML file.
Current version: v0.7.1
## Table of Contents
<!-- TOC -->
* [sshgen](#sshgen)
* [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
* [Features](#features)
* [Installation](#installation)
* [Using pip](#using-pip)
* [Using pipx](#using-pipx)
* [Usage](#usage)
* [License](#license)
* [Changelog](#changelog)
<!-- TOC -->
## Features
1. Generates a `config` file to merge with your existing SSH configuration or include as a separate `.conf` file (since v0.6.0).
2. Custom configuration for ssh-agent.
3. Custom SSH aliases for quick connections.
4. Skip selected hosts from results file.
## Installation
### Using pip
```shell
pip install --user git+https://github.com/pythoninja/sshgen@v0.7.1
```
Or
```shell
pip install --user sshgen
```
### Using pipx
```shell
pipx install git+https://github.com/pythoninja/sshgen@v0.7.1
```
Or just run without installing:
```shell
pipx run sshgen
```
[(Go to top)](#table-of-contents)
## Usage
Before using this tool, make sure you have an Ansible `hosts.yml` in your current working directory.
Consider the following example `hosts.yml` file, which defines 2 host groups with a total of 4 hosts:
```yaml
group1: # host_group
hosts:
host1: # host
ansible_host: 127.0.0.1
ansible_user: root
_meta:
_auth_type: IdentityAgent
_auth_path: ~/.1password/agent.sock
_aliases: [ "base", "another-alias" ]
_skip: false
host2:
ansible_host: 127.0.0.2
ansible_user: manager
ansible_password:
ansible_port: 19020
_meta:
_skip: true
group2:
hosts:
host3:
ansible_host: 172.19.0.1
ansible_user: postgres
ansible_password:
ansible_port: 19222
host4:
ansible_host: 172.99.99.99
ansible_user: postgres
_meta:
_auth_type: IdentityAgent
_auth_path: ~/.1password/agent.sock
_aliases: [ "base", "another-alias" ]
_skip: false
```
To use `sshgen`, you can either invoke it as a Python module using `python -m sshgen --help` or directly use the
command `sshgen --help`.
By default, `sshgen` looks for the `hosts.yml` file in your current working directory. To generate the SSH
configuration, run the following command:
```shell
sshgen generate
```
To display addition logs (verbose mode), add `--verbose` flag:
```
sshgen --verbose generate
```
Or use `SSHGEN_DEBUG=1` (`SSHGEN_VERBOSE=1`) environment variable (since v0.5.0):
```shell
SSHGEN_DEBUG=1 sshgen generate
```
After executing the command, you will see the following output:
```text
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [INFO] - Generated SSH config file was saved to /my_dir/config
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [INFO] - Total processed hosts: 3, total skipped hosts: 1
```
Check the file contents `cat /my_dir/config`:
```
Host host1 base another-alias # group1
HostName 127.0.0.1
User root
Port 22
IdentityAgent ~/.1password/agent.sock
Host host3 # group2
HostName 172.19.0.1
User postgres
Port 19222
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/ssh_key
IdentitiesOnly yes
Host host4 postgres-server # group2
HostName 172.99.99.99
User postgres
Port 22
IdentityAgent ~/.1password/agent.sock
```
If you run using verbose mode, you should see additional information:
<details><summary>Verbose output example</summary>
<p>
```text
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Loading ansible hosts file: /home/user/code/python/sshgen/examples/hosts.yml
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Total hosts found (include skipped): 4
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Using template file /home/user/code/python/sshgen/sshgen/templates/ssh_config.template to generate ssh config
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Filtering hosts where _skip metafield was defined
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Host host1 should be skipped: False
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Host host2 should be skipped: True
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Host host3 should be skipped: False
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Host host4 should be skipped: False
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Processing host1 from group group1
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Adding SSH port 22 for host host1
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Adding aliases ['base', 'another-alias'] for host host1
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Adding custom auth methods for host host1
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Processing host3 from group group2
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Adding SSH port 19222 for host host3
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Processing host4 from group group2
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Adding SSH port 22 for host host4
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Adding aliases ['base', 'another-alias'] for host host4
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Adding custom auth methods for host host4
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [INFO] - Generated SSH config file was saved to /home/user/code/python/sshgen/config
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [DEBUG] - Skipped hosts list: 127.0.0.2
[2024-03-10 10:00:00] [INFO] - Total processed hosts: 3, total skipped hosts: 1
```
</p>
</details>
There are two ways to use the generated file:
1. Copy and insert the output into your `~/.ssh/config` file.
2. Copy file to the conf directory, e.g. `~/.ssh/config.d/00-custom.conf` (if it's not exist, create one).
Edit your `~/.ssh/config` and add `Include` directive **to the top**:
```
#### Custom configuration
Include ~/.ssh/config.d/*.conf
#### End of custom configuration
```
After that, you can use any of the defined aliases to SSH
into the corresponding hosts. For example, running `ssh base` will connect you to the host with the IP address 127.0.0.1
as the root user and utilizing 1password as your SSH agent.
For more examples, please refer to the [examples](https://github.com/pythoninja/sshgen/tree/master/examples) directory.
[(Go to top)](#table-of-contents)
## License
There are no specific requirements for usage and distribution. For more information, refer to
the [LICENSE](https://github.com/pythoninja/sshgen/blob/master/LICENSE).
[(Go to top)](#table-of-contents)
## Changelog
For the changelog, please see [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/pythoninja/sshgen/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
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