SSM Helpers

Helpers to manage you systems with AWS Systems Manager suite of management tools.

Tools in this repo

• ssm-session - Interactive shell with an instance via AWS Systems Manager Session Manager (ssh and cssh replacement)
• ssm-run - Run a command on multiple instances based on instance tags or names (mco and knife replacement)

If you would like more information about the tools, see the README for each in ./cmd/<tool-name>/.

Install

Homebrew

Install the tools via homebrew with

brew install disneystreaming/tap/ssm-helpers

For more information on Homebrew taps please see the tap documentation

Docker

You can run the tools from docker containers

# ssm-run
docker run -it --rm -v $HOME/.aws:/root/.aws \
    -e AWS_PROFILE=$AWS_PROFILE -e AWS_REGION=$AWS_REGION \
    docker.pkg.github.com/disneystreaming/ssm-helpers/ssm-run

# ssm-session (change detach keys for tmux)
docker run -it --rm --detach-keys 'ctrl-e,e' \
    -v $HOME/.aws:/root/.aws -e AWS_PROFILE=$AWS_PROFILE \
    -e AWS_REGION=$AWS_REGION \
    docker.pkg.github.com/disneystreaming/ssm-helpers/ssm-session

Manually

You can find tagged releases for Windows, macOS, and Linux on the releases page

Latest from master

To install the packages from git you can install them individually via:

go get github.com/disneystreaming/ssm-helpers/cmd/ssm-session

go get github.com/disneystreaming/ssm-helpers/cmd/ssm-run

Build

go build -o ssm-run ./cmd/ssm-run/main.go
go build -o ssm-session ./cmd/ssm-session/main.go

Develop

Each tool lives in the cmd/<tool-name> folder and is written in go. They use the aws-sdk-go as well as our own fork of gomux and a new library we provide at go-ssmhelpers.

If you find bugs or would like to suggest improvements please use GitHub issues on the appropriate repo.